Dear Collegues,

I'm desperately trying to find out which text is contained in a manuscript that I'm currently cataloguing.

The manuscript (belonging to the Cambridge UL collection) is written in Grantha script. The text appears to be composed of four pāṭhas, called arkāṇivratānidunduśuklāṇi: the pāṭhas are organized into sections called (from the larger to the smaller) khaṇḍasāmamantra (this last always abbreviated as ma.).

The beginning of the text runs like this:

om vāco vṛte dve | huve vācām | tī | vācaṃ vācaṃ huve vāk | ṭhya ṭya ta śa | śṛṇotu śrṇotu vāg vāk | hyī dya ta śa | samai tu samai tu vāg vāk | re | ramatāṃ ramatāṃ ramātā au ho vā | kilu khaśi | ihā ihā ihā | tū | sāmaṃ | 1 | huvā ivā cāṃ | ṭī ca | vācaṃ huvā i | kāc cā śa | vāk | ta śa | śrṇotu śṛṇotū vāg vāk | cāśa cāka phaplata śa |

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The explicit runs like this:

śukroṃ | cā | śukra ho i | dviḥ | śukra hā ā uvā | ṭyu ṭya | e bhrā Xā bhrājā | tac ka ṭya kha | ma | 40 | prājāpatyaṃ gāyatraṃ prājāpatyaṃ gāyatraṃ | tat savitur pareṇyoṃ | ca śrū | bhargo devasya dhimāhāṃ ī dhiyo yo nāḥ prācārhaṃ bhā o vā | ṭyṛc kaṭyi saṭ caśaka | ṭya ṭyac | ovā huṃ bhā | saṭ ac ṭya | o vā | cā | 41 |
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Final rubric:

śuklāṇi pāṭhasamāptaḥ | hari om | ity āraṇapāṭhasamāptaḥ | śubham astu śrīgurubhyo namaḥ |
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Colophon (in Tamil language and script, added by a different hand):

cuppaḷam kesavaṉ āraṇakurantaṃ 1039 ām ta kārttika mācam 5 til eḻuti mukiñcatu

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The words cuppaḷam kesavaṉ āraṇakurantaṃ recur also in the final rubric of the arkāṇipāṭha:

sāmaṃ 14 | khaṇḍaṃ 6 | arkāṇipāṭha samāptaḥ | cuppaḷam kesavaṉ āraṇakurenatam |

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The title seems to be "Āraṇakurantam (= Āraṇya-grantha?) of Kesavaṉ", but I can't find any text bearing such a title (or a similar one) in any catalogue nor in the internet. Any suggestion will be highly appreciated!

Many thanks in advance,

Marco Franceschini
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