[INDOLOGY] Dhanvantari gayatrī-mantra with source

[Charles Li]

PS here is perhaps a better version from a manuscript at BORI, reading 
*sādhanāya:

https://archive.org/details/descriptive-catalogue-bori-vol-16-part-1-vaidyaka/Descriptive%20Catalogue%20BORI%20Vol%2016%20Part%201%20%28Vaidyaka%29/page/294/mode/1up

Best,

Charles

On 2022-10-26 12:00, Charles Li via INDOLOGY wrote:
>
> 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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