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 < [email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing > [email protected]https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing > [email protected]https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >
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