[INDOLOGY] Dhanvantari gayatrī-mantra with source

[Harry Spier]

Thank you to Dominik Haas, Lucy May Constantini, Ramdas Lamb, Vitus
Angermeier, Charles Li

and to Nagaraj Paturi who sent me this link
https://vanisource.org/wiki/SB_6.8.18?hl=Dhanvantari

to a mantra to Dhanvantari in the Shrimad Bhagavatam that includes a
request to Dhanvantari for protection against unhealthy things.


Harry Spier
Harry Spier


On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 7:32 AM Charles Li via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> 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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