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
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@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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