Re: [INDOLOGY] {भारतीयविद्वत्परिषत्} Maitrāyaṇī-Pariśiṣṭa?

[Madhav Deshpande]

I checked the two Maitrāyaṇī Pariśiṣṭas, namely Gonāmika and Caturhotr̥ka,
published by Raghu Vira in the Journal of Vedic Studies, and neither of
them has anything with reference to Upanayana.  So it must be some other
Maitrāyaṇī Pariśiṣṭa that the माझा प्रवास account seems to be referring
to.  Vishal Agarwal says: "The Prince of Wales Museum at Mumbai has a
manuscript containing all these [Maitrāyaṇī] Parishishtas."  I wonder if
these manuscripts have been digitized and if there is a way to access
them?

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus
Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan
[Residence: Campbell, California]


On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 11:14 AM Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh at umich.edu> wrote:

> Here is the specific passage from Vishnu Bhataji Godse's माझा प्रवास
> (reprint edition in 1974, Venus Prakashan, Pune, pp. 30-31; in my English
> translation):  "In the city of Gwalior, the Upanayana of the son of a well
> known person occurred in the month of Āṣāḍha.  There was a meeting
> regarding this in the Vitthal temple and on that occasion many scholars
> such as Rāmācārya had come.  The Upanayana was done following the opinion
> of a pandit named Tātu Dīkṣita Bhaḍkamkar, who was a famous Veda reciter
> who could recite the R̥gveda upto ghanapāṭha.  Mr. Bhaḍkamkar established
> that it is justified to perform the Upanayana of a Brahmin in the month of
> Āṣāḍha until Viṣṇuśayana based on references from Smr̥tis, Sūtras and the
> Maitrāyaṇīya Pariśīṣṭa, and the Pañcagauḍa brahmins from Mathurā testified
> at this meeting that it is a tradition among the Pañcagauḍa brahmins to
> perform the Upanayana in the month of Āṣāḍha.  Pandit Bhaḍkamkar performed
> the Upanayana in the month of Āṣāḍha, and the meeting concluded that this
> was done according to the Śāstras."  This account describes the visit of
> Vishnu Bhataji Godse to north India in 1857.
> Madhav M. Deshpande
> Professor Emeritus
> Sanskrit and Linguistics
> University of Michigan
> [Residence: Campbell, California]
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 9:32 AM Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh at umich.edu> wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>>      I wonder if anyone has any information regarding a text called
>> Maitrāyaṇī Pariśīṣṭa.  I came across a reference to this text in a travel
>> account by a Marathi Brahmin [माझा प्रवास, by विष्णुभटजी गोडसे] around
>> 1857.  In Gwalior, there was a Śāstra discussion about the appropriate
>> month for Upanayana of a Maitrāyaṇī child, and this text was consulted in
>> that discussion.  The account says that the Maitrāyaṇī household in Gwalior
>> followed the traditions of the Gauḍa brahmins.  This interestingly
>> contrasts with the fight of the Maitrāyaṇī community in Maharashtra to be
>> counted among Drāviḍa brahmins, something that I have discussed in an
>> article.
>>
>> Madhav M. Deshpande
>> Professor Emeritus
>> Sanskrit and Linguistics
>> University of Michigan
>> [Residence: Campbell, California]
>>
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