Katha Sarita Sagara (कथासरितसागर / kathaa sarita saagara)(literally meaning 'Ocean Of Sea Of Stories') is an unique literary work in Sanskrit literature. It was composed bya brahmin scholar from Kashmir named Soma Deva(somadeva) around 1170 AD. Many other famous works likeArabian Nights have got inspiration from Katha Sarita Sagara. It is not surprising to find many common fairytales in Katha Sarita Sagara. It is said that Soma Deva composed it to entertain the queen Suryamati(suryamatii), the wife of king Anantadeva (anantadeva), so that she can devote more time to worldly matters thanworshipping Lord Shiva.Katha Sarita Sagara stands in contrast with other Indian Sanskrit scriptures. Almost all Sanskrit text teach orpromote an ethical life and moral code of conduct for all. In contrast to these almost all stories inKatha Sarita Sagara talk about earthly living, earthly pleasure and fantacy.Katha Sarita Sagara is a collection of hundreds of stories tied together through a complex web of different storiestied together in threads.
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The author Soma Deva mentions that Katha Sarita Sagara is derived from a much biggerwork named Brihad Katha. The very first introduction chapter ( Katha Pitha) mentions about seven volumes ofBrihad Katha, written by a scholar named Gunadhya (guNaadhyaaya) and presented to King Salivahana(saalivaahana). However the King does not approve these stories as these were written in Paisachi (paisaachi)language and not in Sanskrit. Disheartened Gunadhya then starts burning these volumes, after telling the storiesto animals in the forest. However finally King Salivahana reads the last remaining volume and saves it frombeing burnt. He translates it into Sanskrit and names it as Brihad Katha. Though Brihad Katha is not availabletoday, there are enough compelling evidences to justify that it was existing and was famous in Indian literature.Many of the stories are derived from stories in Ramayana, Mahabharata, Puranas, and historical events etc.
Howeveralmost all the original stories have been altered and written to form the thread of stories in Katha Sarita Sagarathan the original story or event. The famous stories from Betal Pachisi are also available in Katha Sarita Sagaraas part of a larger thread of stories.Most of the characters in the stories are vidyaadharas or deme-gods, and similar non-human characters. Conceptslike boons, curses, re-birth, devine help, magical power etc., are very common in the stories. In fact these playan important role in giving a completely new dimension to the different level of stories in which characters froman outer level story can appear in a deeper level story as a different character and tell stories about themselves.The Katha Pitha of Katha Sarita Sagara itself gives an insight into the magical stories that are part of it.
Itstarts with request of Goddess Parvati to Lord Shiva to tell her some story which has never been told before.Lord Shiva tells the magical stories about the seven vidyadhara princes as their life is more interesting thanthe human beings or Gods. His retainer Nandi (nandi) guards the place and no one else is allowed to enter. Howeverafter being denied entry by Nandi, Pushpadanta (pushpadanta) one of the retainers (gaNa) of Lord Shiva takesan invisible form and entes the place out of curiosity. He listens to these enchanting magical stories and laternarrates them to his wife Jaya (jayaa). She in turns tells those stories to Goddess Parvati. Goddess Parvatigets angry thinking that Lord Shiva has told her stories that even a servant knows. However, after knowing theactual events, she curses Pushpadanta to become a mortal on earth.
Same fate awaits Maalyavaan (maalyavaan)another retainer who tries to side with Pushpadanta. After lot of request from them she puts the conditions toget back their former forms. Pushpadanta is to narrate the stories to Suppratika (supratika) another retainerwho has become a demon under some earlier curse.
This will end the curse on Pushpadanta. Suppratika is tonarrate the stories to Maalyavaan and get back his former position. Malyavaan gets the most difficult task ofspreading the stores on earth before getting back his original form.On earth, Pushpadanta becomes Varuruchi (varuruchi) and Malyavaan becomes Gunadhyaya (guNaadhyaaya). As theflow of events occur, Varuruchi narates the stories to Kanabhuti (kaaNabhuti) the deamon ( Suppratika undercurse), and gets freed from the curse. Similarly Kanabhuti narrates the stories to Gunadhyaya and becomes freefrom the curse. Later Gunadhyaya writes these stories in Paisachi language and presents to king Salivahana.As he disapproves the stories written in Paisachi language, disheartened Gunadhyaya narrates the stories to theanimals in forest and burns the writings one after another. King Salivahana comes to know about this and saves theseventh story from being burnt.
He later transalates these into Sanskrit as Brihad Katha. After this Gunadhyayais able to get back his previous form as Malyavaan.
In this Edition of eGangotri I have a few more exciting manuscripts. First a pleasant discovery in Srinagar.Karan Nagar Ashram, Srinagar:Recently someone left a note on my Blog and informed us that the Karan Nagar Ashram in Srinagar has some manuscripts and also many books which in the KP Exodus of the 90s were deposited by the fleeing Community.I was very excited and I contacted the Caretaker Shri Kaul and to my immense pleasure and surprise, permission to digitize was given immediately.
And work has started there thanks to my New Manager Hashim.But very sadly though, I was told that 60% of the books were destroyed in the floods esp Manuscripts.But whatever of the Old Books and Manuscripts survive our team is now working there and should take us two months to digitize them.The New Account for the Karan Nagar Ashram is:We have done 5 Manuscripts there, 3 in Sharada and 2 in Devanagari – and the only ones we have found so far:Spanda Nirnaya in Devanagari( Wet Copy ). I dont have the faintest clue what they are about but are most likely in Old Javanese interspersed with Sanskrit, though my phone camera didnt exactly do an Optimal Job. Inputs by experts of Balinese Literature are welcome. I also was able to reach out to two Experts n Bali who are responsible for the Digitization of Balinese Manuscripts at archive.org and recieved a complete copy of there Digitial Efforts also available at archive.org – not least give them as mcuh eBooks/e-manuscripts as they were interested in. Recently, I ran into a Book on Nataraj with some very stunning photographs by Shri Kamal Kishor Mishra, currently Associate Professor in Calcutta University.I was pleasantly surprised that, Prof. Mishra had done the Second Set of Catalog Post-Stein to bring up to date the Collection.3 Volumes were by Patekar done in the 70s and the fourth Volume by Prof. Mishra and Late Shri Dhaniram Shastri, Chief Librarian of Raghunath Temple.I decided to digitize all Kashmir Shaiva Manuscripts based on this New Catalog.
I realized all entries related to the Script of the Manuscript are entered as Devanagari which is clearly wrong. Only Two entries in the 4th Volume showed Sharada, hence I had these done first.The First manuscript contains the following Stotras. Dear All:In this Issue of eGangotri, Almira 27, Shelf-2 and 3, mostly Tantric Material are now digitized Completely.List of all Items in Almira 27 Shelf 2List of all Items in Almira 27 Shelf 3All Items can be seen uploaded newly at:One of the Most Interesting Items in these Shelves was Sri Vidya Paddhati of Sahib Kaul at 771 Pages.Sahib Kaul, believed to be an Enlgihtened Shaiva Master of Medieval Kashmir whose Devi Nama Vilas is published – and a manuscript in Sharada we have digitized also – located at Ishwar Ashram Trust, Sarita Vihar, Delhi. This New Work I reckon is not only unpublished but is unknown as well.Terminal Colophon:श्रीम्च्छ्रीमहामाहेश्वराचार्य सर्व दैशिकवरेन्द्र चक्रचूडामणि साहिब कौल विरचिता श्री विद्या नित्य पूजा पद्धतिः समाप्ताThis Document may be an Authentic Source of History of the State of the Transmission of Sri Vidya in Kashmir.I will try to contact Prof.
Donald Renfrew Brooks ( his email unknow to me ) – the Author of the Highly readable and comprehensive ‘Auspicious Wisdom – The Texts and Traditions of Sri vidya Sakta Tantrism in South India‘ – and see if this new manuscript means anything.The Manuscript is below. Ahalya StotramAlm27shlf360901754KDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 20 Pages2). Annapurna Stotra – Shri ShankracharyaAlm27Shlf360771741KDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 28 Pages3). Annapurna StotramAlm27shlf360761740KDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 16 Pages4). Aparajita StotraHanumat StotraAlm27shlf361031808KDevanagari – Tantra.pdf, 83 Pages5).
Bal Krishna AshtakamAlm27Shlf361041810KDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 12 Pages6). Bhawani StotramAlm27shlf360891753KDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 14 Pages7). Dattatreya StotramAlm27shlf3KDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 12 Pages8).
Devi KavachamAlm27shlf360811745kDevanagari – Tantra.pdf, 31 Pages9). Durga StotramAlm27shlf360991768KDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 10 Pages10). Ganesh StotramAlm27shlf360971795KDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 12 Pages11). GangashtakamAlm27shlf36098-21767KDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 10 Pages12). Govind Stotram – Shri ShakracharyaAlm27shlf361121816KDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 13 Pages13). Hanumat Kavacham (Panch Mukhi)Alm27shlf360881752KDevanagari – Tantra.pdf, 18 Pages14).
Hanumat KavachamAlm27shlf360781742kDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 18 Pages15). Jagannath Ashtakam – Shri Shankracharya Alm27shlf360911755KDevanagari -Stotra.pdf, 12 Pages16). Jaya StotramAlm27shlf361061812KDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 8 Pages17). Jwaala StotramAlm27shlf360841748KDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 10 Pages18).
Kali StotramAlm27shlf361101819KDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 8 Pages19). Kamal Netram – Kavi Dutta DasAlm27shlf360821746KDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 14 Pages20). Karma GitaAlm27shlf360871751KDevanagari – Dharma Shastra.pdf, 20 Pages21). LingashtakamAlm27shlf36079Devanagari – Stotra.pdf, 8 Pages22). Mukund Mala – Kula ShekharAlm27shlf36080Devnagari – Stotra.pdf, 34 Pages23). Nara Singh KavachamAlm27Shlf361091815KDevanagari – Tantra.pdf, 8 Pages24).
Naradiya ShikshaMaharishi NaradaAlm27shlf361241858KDevanagari – Shiksha.pdf, 52 Pages25). Neel Kantha StotramAlm27shlf360831747kDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 12 Pages26).
Pancha Svara – Prajapati DasAlm27shlf361181828KDevanagari – Jyotish.pdf, 117 Pages27). Pashu Gayatri (24 Gayatri)Alm27shlf361021807KDevanagari – Tantra.pdf, 69 Pages28). Ragyi StotraAlm27shlf361071813KDevanagari Stotra.pdf, 16 Pages29). Ram Raksha StotramAlm27shlf361011787KDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 43 Pages30). RamashtakamAlm27shlf360851746KDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 8 Pages31). RamashtakamAlm27shlf360861750KDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 13 Pages32). RamashtakamAlm27shlf360961764KDevangari – Stotra.pdf, 16 Pages33).
RamashtakamAlm27shlf361051811KDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 10 Pages34). Ramottara TapiniAlm27shlf361171825KDevanagari – Upanishad.pdf, 283 Pages35). Rasik Priya – Inderjeet Singhalm27shlf361231857KDevanagari – Alankar Shastra.pdf, 166 Pages36). Sangeet DarpanamAlm27shlf361211855KDevanagari – Sangeet Shastra.pdf, 198 Pages37). Sangeet Raghunandan – Vishwnath SinghAlm27shlf36122Devanagari – Sangeet Shastra.pdf, 142 Pages38).
Sangraha Stotra of UtpalAlm27Shlf360981766KDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 18 Pages39). Sankat Mochan Ashtakam – Shri Tulsi Das GoswamiAlm27shlf361081814KDevanagari – Stotr.pdf, 17 Pages40). Sankata StotramAlm27shlf360931761KDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 8 Pages41). Shakti Sangam TantraAlm27shlf3611918292Devanagari – Tantra.pdf, 178 Pages42).
Shakti SanganAlm27shlf361191829KDevanagari – Tantra.pdf, 179 Pages43). Sharika StotramAlm27shlf360951793KDevnagari – Stotra.pdf, 12 Pages44). Sharika StotrmAlm27Shlf360951793KDevnagari – Stotra.pdf, 12 Pages45).
Shatnam StotramAlm27shlf360941762KDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 20 Pages46). SheetalashtakamAlm27Shlf360921760KDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 12 Pages47).
Shiv ArtiAlm27shlf361001761KDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 14 Pages48). Shiv Narayan StotraShiva Vishnu StotramAlm27Shlf361131820KDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 45 Pages49). Sundar Shringar of Sunadr Das (1) – Rag Manjari of Tulsidas(2)Alm27Shlf361201849KDevanagari – Kavya.pdf, 205 Pages50). Utpal StotramAlm27shlf360981766KDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 18 Pages51). Vishnu NamawaliAlm27shlf361141822kDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 90 Pages.
Arjun GitaAlm27Shlf260671733KDevanagari – Dharmshastra.pdf, 68 Pages2). Arjun GitaAlm27Shlf260681732kDevnagari – Dharmshastra.pdf, 55 Pages3).
Brahma Gayatri Alm27Shlf260511669KDevanagari Tantra.pdf, 16 Pages4). Daridrya Dahan Stotra – Mrityunjaya StotraAlm27shlf260601724kDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 14 Pages5). Dasha Prashna Stotram – LankeshwaraAlm27Shlf260611725KDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 14 Pages6). Ganapati StotramAlm27Shlf260751739kDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 8 Pages7). Mangal StotramAlm27Shlf260741738KDevnagari – Stotra.pdf, 10 Pages8).
Matanga VrittiAlm27Shlf260471657 KDevanagari – Tantra.pdf, 431 Pages9). Meru TantramAlm27shlf260491659KDevanagari – Tantra.pdf, 629 Pages10). Narad GitaAlm27Shlf260711735KDevanagari – Dharmshastra.pdf, 28 Pages11). Narayan StotramAlm27shlf260721736KDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 10 Pages12). Pandav GitaAlm27shlf260671731kDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 60 Pages13). RudrashtakamAlm27Shlf260581722KDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 10 Pages14).
Sapta Shloki Gita With Hindi CommentaryAlm27shlf260651729KDevanagari – Vedanta.pdf, 28 Pages15). Sapta Shloki GitaAlm27Shlf260631727KDevanagari – Vedanta.pdf, 7 Pages16). Sapta Shloki GitaAlm27Shlf260641728KDevanagari – Vedanta.pdf, 8 Pages17).
Sharika Panchangam Alm27shlf260501668KDevanagari – Tantra.pdf, 68 Pages18). Shiva KavachamAlm27shlf260571721kDevanagri – Tantra.pdf, 83 Pages19). Shiva StotramAlm27shlf260701734kDevanagari -Stotra.pdf, 6 Pages20).
Shiva Sutra VrittiAlm27shlf260521672kDevnagari – Shaiv Darshana.pdf, 30 Pages21). Surya Kavacha Alm27shlf26056Devanagari.pdf, 26 Pages22). Swachchandotyota – Kshemraj Alm27Shlf260481658kDevanagari – Tantra.pdf, 775 Pages23). Vidyarnava Alm27shlf260461656KDevanagari – Tantra.pdf, 773 Pages24). VidyarnavaAlm27Shlf260442656KDevanagari- Tantra.pdf, 859 Pages25). VidyarnawahAlm27shlf260451659kDevanagari – Tantra.pdf, 633 Pages26).
Vishnu Panjar StotramAlm27Shlf260731737KDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 20 Pages27). Vishnu Sahasra NamawaliAlm27shlf26055167KDevanagari -Stotra.pdf, 132 Pages28). Vishnu ShatnamAlm27Shlf260591723KDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 18 Pages29). Vitasta StotramAlm27shlf260621726KDevanagari – Stotra.pdf, 10 Pages30). Yam GitaAlm27Shlf260661730kDevanagari – Puranic SubText.pdf, 26 Pages31). Shri Vidya Nitya PaddhatiAlm27Shlf260661730kDevanagari – Puranic SubTextSahib Kaul.pdf, 771 Pages.
Ignore the Rajatarangini written in Sharada on the Cover.Comments welcome regarding what it contains? I have asked Michael Witzel already.Soon I will post a Report of my Books and Manuscripts Survey in Srinagar with lots of Photographs including damages caused by the Floods.Luckily Ishwar Ashram Trust, Srinagar Library was completely spared – owing to its elevated Position and my Staff is now assiduously working there – thanks to the Kindness of Dr. Anusheel Munshi, Raina Sahib and other Honourable Trust Members and within 2 Months I will have the entire Library digital which includes the Meditation Hall Library, Library of Mataji Prabha Devi and the Main library all in the Same Premises. Complete List of Almira-27 Shelf-1 Items:1). Bagla Mukhi RahasyamAlm27shlf16026Devanagari – Tantra.pdf, 129 Pages2).
Bagula Mukhi PanchangamAlm27shlf16025Devanagari – Tantra.pdf, 325 Pages3). Dakshina Murti Samhita Alm27shlf16022Devanagari – Tantra.pdf, 179 Pages4). Dakshinamurti SamhitaAlm27shlf160221633kDevanagari – Tantra.pdf, 175 Pages5).
Ganesh StotraAlm27Shlf16010Devanagari – Stotra.pdf, 207 Pages6). Gautam TantraAlm27shlf16039devanagari – Tantra.pdf, 167 Pages7). Kameshwar PanchgamAlm27shlf16021Devanagari – Tantra.pdf, 187 Pages8). Kaulikachana DeepikaAlm27Shlf16007Devanagari – Tantra.pdf, 211 Pages9).
Krama DeepikaAlm27shlf16041Devanagari – Tantra.pdf, 93 Pages10). Kularanava TantraAlm27shlf16034Devanagari Tantra.pdf, 171 Pages11). Maha Nirvana TantraAlm27Shlf16036Devanagari – Tantra.pdf, 197 Pages12).
Malini Vartika of AbhinavaguptaAlm27shlf16028Devanagari – Tantra.pdf, 66 Pages13). ManasollasaAlm27shlf16029Devanagari – Tantra.pdf, 125 Pages14). Nagarjuna TantraAlm27shlf16030Devanagari – Tantra.pdf, 123 Pages15). Netra Tantra with Netrodyota of Kshemendra till Chapter 14 and 2 Folios of Chapter 15Alm27shlf16033Devanagari – Tantra.pdf, 321 Pages16). Niruttara TantraAlm27shlf16040Devanagari – Tantra.pdf, 74 Pages17). Puja PaddhatiBali Vishva DevaAlm27Shlf16017Devanagari – Dharma Shastra.pdf, 118 Pages18). Rakaradi Shri Rama SahasranamaAlm27shlf160132629kDevanagari- Stotra.pdf, 173 Pages19).
Ram Navmi PujaAlm27shlf16031Devanagari – Tantra.pdf, 38 Pages20). Sabeeja Bhavani SahasranamaAlm27shlf16037Devanagari – Tantra.pdf, 265 Pages21). Sanat Kumar TantraAlm27shlf16038Devanagari – Tantra.pdf, 42 Pages22).
ShaT Chakra DhyanamAlm27Shlf16018Devanagari – Tantra.pdf, 49 Pages23). Shiva PanchangamAlm27Shlf160271638KDevanagari – Tantra.pdf, 128 Pages24). Shiva PujaAlm27Shlf16015Devanagari – Dharma Shastra.pdf, 41 Pages25). Shivarchan Paddhati Visnhu Sahasra NaamavaliAlm27shlf160141620kDevanagari – Karma Kanda.pdf, 74 Pages26).
Shri Ram StotramAlm27shlf16020Devanagari – Stotra.pdf, 192 Pages27). Shri VidyarchanaAlm27shlf16032Devanagari – Tantra.pdf, 39 Pages28). Shyama RahasyamAlm27shlf16043Devanagari – Tantra.pdf, 233 Pages29). Sumukhi PanchangamAlm27Shelf16012Devanagari – Tantra.pdf, 327 Pages30). Tantra Homa VidhiAlm27shlf16023Devanagari – Tantra.pdf, 33 Pages31). Tantra Homa Vidhi Alm27shlf160231634k Devanagari – Tantra.pdf, 27 Pages32).
Tara RahasyaAlm27shlf16042Devanagari – Tantra.pdf, 73 Pages33). Tripura Sundari MahopnishatAlm27shlf16024Devanagari – Upanishad.pdf, 83 Pages34). Utpal Stotravali With Vivritti of KshemarajaAlm27shlf16035Devanagari – Tantra.pdf, 156 Pages35). Vriddha Svachchanda TantraAlm27Shelf16011Devanagari – Tantra.pdf, 345 Pages36). Yantra ChintamaniAlm27shlf16006Devanagari – Tantra.pdf, 113 Pages.