[INDOLOGY] Autsanash Purana

Tue Oct 3 07:24:08 UTC 2017

Here is the reference to a recent edition of the Vindhyamāhātmya claiming to be part of the Auśanasapurāṇa  which is, a Dominik pointed out, the text here concerned:
http://www.worldcat.org/title/ausanasa-puranantargata-vindyacala-mahatmya-vindya-khanda-hindi-tika-evam-vistrta-angreji-hindi-bhumika-sahita/oclc/879118972

Le 3 oct. 2017 à 03:03, patrick mccartney <psdmccartney at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Thanks to Ashok, Dominik and Christophe for your replies. 
> 
> Rana Singh replied to an email over the weekend, that the "Autsanash Purana, is a sthala purana - no way standard or recognised one and neither even published properly". 
> He claims that he consulted with a local pandit and his family regarding this text and does not have a copy himself.
> I asked about the spelling he uses but he didn't clarify this point, this -t-, it seems, is more than a typo, as it appears in several publications of his regarding this pilgrimage. 
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> All the best,
> 
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> De: Christophe Vielle <christophe.vielle at uclouvain.be>
> Objet: Rép : [INDOLOGY] Autsanash Purana
> Date: 3 octobre 2017 09:08:41 UTC+2
> À: Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com>
> Cc: patrick mccartney <psdmccartney at gmail.com>
> 
> Dear Dominik,
> 
> the scanned pages were simply given for completing the information you gave from Rocher (who relies on Hazra, whose books are sometimes difficult to find - I see now that Rocher refers also to a 1954 article by Hazra, which, I guess, has nothing more than what is in his book since he was not reproduced in Hazra Commemoration Volume which is like is "kleine Schriftern"). By the way, as usually with the puraa.nas, the fact that a 'genuine' or original (here AuzanasaP) does no longer exist (if it once really existed - its mentioning in a traditional list of 18 does not mean much according to me) is one thing (I should have written "there was…" or "there could have been…"), the other is the existence of actual texts claiming to belong/to be part of this puraa.na (as a kind of "virtual" one, as it is with the main puraa.na titles, Skanda etc. to which claim to belong many "parts", maahaatmyas etc.) - as you very rightly pointed out, what is here important is the title 'Vindhya-maahaatmya" claming to belong to this AuzanasaP (or B.rhad-Auzanasa according to Hazra fn. 61 - relying on manuscripts). Reading again what Singh says, "Autsanash Purana, AP (27.30)" to which he refers only once (on p. 127) = here "Vindhya Mahatmya [cf. the ref. "VM 27" just before]… claiming to be part, or different version, of AP" (in fact elsewhere he refers only to Vindhya Mahatmya/VM). Just after, when he talks about "Many popular booklets… which give abridged versions of the above two texts", it is a bit confusing but it seems that he refers to 1° VM (= AP) and 2° DM (Deviimaahaatmya), to which he has also just alluded.
> 
> Now, it appears that this "late" (18th century?) Vindhya-maahaatmya has an edition:
> औशनस पुराणान्तर्गत विन्ध्याचल माहात्म्य : विन्ध्य-खण्ड : हिन्दी टीक एवं विस्तृत अंग्रेजी-हिन्दी भूमिका सहित
> Puranas. Auśanasapurāṇa. Vindyamāhātmya.
> Auśanasa Purāṇāntargata Vindhyācala māhātmya : Vindhya-khaṇḍa : Hindī ṭīka evaṃ vistr̥ta Aṅgrejī-Hindī bhūmikā sahita
> anuvādaka, Raghunātha Dube ; sampādaka, Omaprakāśa Miśra
> Prathama saṃskaraṇa. Vārāṇasī : Śiva Saṃskr̥ta Saṃsthāna, 2013.
> प्रथम संस्करण. वाराणसी : शिव संस्कृत संस्थान, २०१३.
> 
> Śiva Saṃskr̥ta granthamālā ; 20
> शिव संस्कृत ग्रन्थमाला ; २०
> vi, li, ix, 336 pages ; 22 cm
> Summary
> 
> Significance of Vindyachal, portion of Auśanasapurāṇa, Hindu mythological text.
> Notes
> Sanskrit text with Hindi translation; with additional material in English.
> From the University of Wisconsin Library:
> https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/9910209529302121
>  
> 
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> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 4:19 AM, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com> wrote:
> We seem to be speaking differently about the same information.  As Rocher and Hazra both say, there is no such upapurana *surviving today*.  The title is known from old lists, and the work may or may not have actually existed, it's hard to tell.
> 
> --
> Professor Dominik Wujastyk,
> Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity,
> Department of History and Classics,
> University of Alberta, Canada.
> South Asia at the U of A: sas.ualberta.ca
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> On 2 October 2017 at 10:54, Christophe Vielle <christophe.vielle at uclouvain.be> wrote:
> There is in fact both an Auzanasa- and a -B.rhad-auzanasa-upapuraa.na.
> Hereabout the pages 501-505 from R. C. Hazra, Studies in the Upapuraa.nas vol. 2 (zaakta and non-sectarian upapuraa.nas), Calcuta: Sanskrit College, 1963, nos. 3 & 6 (I remark that the pages in the 1979 ed. of the same are different: pp. 621-625).
> 
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> Le 2 oct. 2017 à 17:41, Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> a écrit :
> 
>> A quick look in the index of Ludo Rocher's fine history of puranic literature shows an Auśanasapurāṇa, which is probably what Singh is trying to refer to.  P. 138 gives more information about this "lost" purāṇa, which is sometimes conflated with the Vindhyamāhātmya, that Singh also cites.  That's probably the basis of the information that Singh is garbling.
>> 
>> --
>> Professor Dominik Wujastyk,
>> Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity,
>> Department of History and Classics,
>> University of Alberta, Canada.
>> South Asia at the U of A: sas.ualberta.ca
>> 
>> 
>> On 27 September 2017 at 12:39, patrick mccartney via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>> Dear Friends, 
>> 
>> Might anyone know something more or have a copy of the "autsanash purana" mentioned in this book? 
>> 
>> https://books.google.com.au/books?id=YQoaBwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Rana+P.+B.+Singh+with+a+Foreword+by+John+McKim+Malville%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwicpM_dgMbWAhXGyLwKHS83DyYQ6AEICjAA#v=onepage&q=Autsanash%20purana&f=false
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Patrick
>> 
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