[INDOLOGY] Devipurana (2)

Thu Feb 9 14:06:39 UTC 2017

Dear Christophe,

thanks, I did not think to have a look of other secondary publications.
Thus, I suppose the verse is right and it should appears somewhere also in
the DP ed. of P. Kumar.

On the other hand, I think Dehejia mis-cited *DP *(in fact it did not
appear in final bibliography) and probably she confused with
*Devibhagavatapurana* although there are two lists there, the first
composed of 108 places and the second (in the devigita section) composed of
71 or 72 (if you consider also Varanasi as the seat where all the goddess's
forms resides together). Very strange.

Best,
Paolo

On 9 February 2017 at 14:19, Christophe Vielle <
christophe.vielle at uclouvain.be> wrote:

> Hazra's *Studies in the Upapur**āṇas *vol. 2 (1963) deals extensively
> with the DeviiP pp. 46-239. He refers to the Bengali characters (Vangavasi
> Press) ed. as the only one existing at that time.
> The v. 6b of ch. 39 is given p. 63 fn. 127 as:
>
> *yajed bhaumaatmajo devii.m kaamaakhye girikandare*
>
> The presentation of the chap. 39 at the same page says:
> "Names of holy places in which Devii was worshipped in her different forms
> by different gods, sages and kinds (including Jaamadagnya, *Bhauma's son*,
> Vibhii.sa.na and Raajasena) viz., [...] Ki.skindhyaa-parvata [...]"
> I do not see in his detailed description (nor in the following one of the
> KaalikaaP) reference to such a list of 64 devii-pii.thas.
> Hope it may help,
> Best wishes,
> Christophe
>
>
> Le 7 févr. 2017 à 14:16, Paolo Eugenio Rosati via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> a écrit :
>
> Dear list,
>
> I am looking for a couple of references from the *Devipurana*.
>
> I found---throughout secundary literature---some references that probably
> derived from this edition:
>
> *Devīpurāṇa*, ed. with a Bengali translation by Pancanana Tarkaratna.
> Calcutta, 1928.
>
> while I have got (thanks to the list!) this edition:
> *Devīpurāṇa*. Kumar, Sharma P. (ed.) 1976. *Devī Purāṇam*. New Delhi: Sri
> Lal Bahadur Shastri Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth.
>
> Actually I do not know if the two eds are based on different mss, but I
> was unable to find out verse (39.6) that should says:
>
> *yajed ... devIM kAmAkhye girikandare *(Van Kooij 1972, 32n3---based on
> Bengali trans.)
>
> although some scholars wrote that in this verse should also be a reference
> to the son of Bhumi (earth goddess) and cited the Kumar ed. (v.
> 39.6b)---but in Kumar ed. there is the verse that speak of Kamakhya neither
> it speak about a "Bhauma".
>
> The second part that I am looking for is a so-called* Appendix 1 list 7*
> (cit. in Dehejia 1986, Yogini Cult and Temples), although in her
> bibliography it is not cited any *DP *ms or edition. Thus, I imagine this
> appendix was somewhere through the Kumar ed. (or maybe not) or perhaps she
> confused with another text?!
> Dehejia wrote that in this list were enumerated 64 devi-pithas from which
> depend on the two *yogini *lists of the *Kalikapurana *(Chs. 54 and 63,
> in B. Shastri [1991] 2008).
>
> I wish someone could help in find out the verse and the appendix that I
> was unable to find out from Kumar ed. of *DP*.
>
> Best wishes,
> Paolo
>
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