[INDOLOGY] Premodern Indian libraries and archives

[Péter-Dániel Szántó]

Dear Christian,

I don't remember why I looked at this, but there is a late vāstuśāstra
describing the way in which a library should be organised (I don't think we
have much prescriptive information about this elsewhere, perhaps that's why
I thought I should transcribe this in a note; I hope I'm wrong!).

Viśvakarmavāstuśāstra, ch. 20 second half; a library
D. N. Shukla, \textit{Vāstu-śāstra Vol. I Hindu Science of Architecture
(Engineering, Town-Planning, Civil Architecture, Palace-Architecture,
Temple-Architecture and an anthology of Vāstu-laksanas)}. Bhāratīya
Vāstu-śāstra Series, Vol. VIII. Lucknow: Vāstu-Vāṅmaya-Prakāśana-Śālā /
Shukla Printing Press. year n.a. (ca. 1960), pp. 193–194 of texts (pdf
788); English abstract on p. 390 (pdf 397)

khaḍgasandhāraṇaṃ rājñaś śāstrasevanam ity api |
dvayaṃ (caiva viśeṣeṇa) śubhapradam itīritam || 20.23
vijñānadharmasukṛtasukhatatvādivardhakam |
śāstraṃ bhūpatinā sevyaṃ niyamena (manīṣiṇā) || 20.24
jñānena prāpyate lakṣmīr jñānena sukham aśnute |
prāṇisaṃrakṣaṇe jñānam ādyo mantrīti kathyate || 20.25
gurudevārcanaparaḥ prāṇirakṣādṛḍhavrataḥ |
yaśase kalpate bhūpaś śāstrasevanatatparaḥ || 20.26
tena tuṣyanti pitaro brāhmaṇā vedapāragāḥ |
kāle varṣati parjanyo medinī sasyaśālinī || 20.27
sukhabhājaḥ prajāḥ sarvā nyāyasthitir acañcalā |
ityādikṣemajanakaṃ śāstrasevanam īśituḥ || 20.28
tasmād bhūpatinā kāryaṃ pratyahaṃ śāstrasevanam |
prāsāde nītibhavane purāṇām api madhyame || 20.29
viduṣāṃ melanasthāne śāstraśālāṃ prakalpayet |
caturaśrā śāstraśālā prāṅmukhāvaraṇatrayā || 20.30
madhye kalpavidhānena prakalpyā vedavedikā |
mukhabhadracatuṣkeṇa saṃyutāṅgaṇaśobhinī || 20.31
bahir āndhārikā yuktā vātāyanaśatojjvalā |
ekabhaumā tribhaumā vā śikhareṇāpi bhāsurā || 20.32
prathamāvaraṇe vedo dvitīyāvaraṇe smṛtiḥ |
tṛtīyāvaraṇe cārṣaṃ vedanāthaḥ paraḥ pumān || 20.32
vāṇīṃ hayamukhaṃ śambhum umāṃ saparicārikām |
sthāpayet tatra kāryajñaḥ kalaśādisamanvitāḥ |
gurupīṭhasamāyuktaḥ prajānāṃ śemuṣīpradaḥ || 20.33

Yours,
Peter



On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 at 13:56, Jonathan Silk via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> With regards to the first listing here,
>
> An illustrated two volume publication by
>
>> Hartmut Buescher, Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts: The Paṇḍit
>> Collection, Copenhagen 2019;
>>
>>
> one may see now:
> Dates, Places, Verses: Random Remarks on the Catalogue of the “Paṇḍit
> Collection” in the Royal Library, Copenhagen
> von Hinüber, Oskar
> Indo-Iranian journal, 2021-10-06, Vol.64 (3), p.241-260
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