[INDOLOGY] Dhanvantari gayatrī-mantra with source

[Charles Li]

Dear Harry,

Here is a maṅgalaśloka from the /Lakṣmaṇotsava/ (1450 CE, according to 
the NCC) in upajāti metre that might fit the description of what you're 
looking for. I don't know if the text has been edited; this is the 
incipit of manuscript Sanscrit 1228 from the Palmyr Cordier collection 
at the national library of France, copied in 1899 from a manuscript at 
the Sanskrit College of Benares (photo attached). See lines 6-7:

    namo stu dhanvaṃtaraye samastajarāparāṃtaṃ katamas savitre ||
    divyāṃganāsaṃgatayauvanaśrīsaṃpattidāyāmṛtasādhanā yaṃ || 3 ||

Maybe it should read samstajvarā* in line 1? But that messes up the metre.

Best,

Charles

On 2022-10-25 16:55, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY wrote:
> Dear list members,
> Firstly thank you to Dominik Haas who found a reference in a modern 
> womans travel journal to India.  Other than that I was extremely 
> surprised that I couldn't find any mantras in any written sources to 
> Dhanvantari.  I searched GRETIL, the Muktabodha digital library, and 
> the Kyoto Archive of Sanskrit Texts (Michio Yano and colleagues) . 
> There were lots of references to dhanvantarI (dhanvantarir uvAca 
> etc.)  but as far as I could see no mantras to him (of course its 
> possible I missed them).
>
> Any supposition about why these are so rare (non-existent?) in written 
> sources but all over the internet.  In ayurveda is it other deities 
> that are used in healing mantras?  Or even better if the ayurvedic 
> experts could point me to any mantras to dhanvantari (or other 
> deities) used in healing.
>
> Thanks again,
> Harry Spier
>
> On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 4:36 PM Harry Spier 
> <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Dear list members,
>     I was asked to find gayatrī mantras to the god of healing
>     Dhanvantari (but with a source). I'm able to find lots of mantras
>     (including gayatrī mantras) on youtube and the internet but they
>     don't give a source.
>     Ideally would be a gayatri mantra with a scriptural source (some
>     ayurvedic text?) but acceptable would be some modern book
>     collection of mantras etc. And even some shloka or non-gayatri
>     mantra in a text asking for healing from Dhanvantari would also be
>     acceptable.
>     Thanks,
>     Harry Spier
>
>
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