Śradmhtmyam

Re-edited by Alexis Sanderson,  July, 

Source: A = Bodleian, MS Stein Or. d.  (vi), one of two manuscripts containing this
text acquired by M. Aurel Stein in Kashmir and donated to the Bodleian Library in
Oxford. It is written on  folios of Kashmirian polished paper in the Kashmirian
form of the Devanāgarī script with  lines per side and about  aks.aras per line,
and comprises  verses, numbered throughout. It has the following in Stein’s own
hand in the upper margin of the first side: ‘‘Read at Zirhâma, en route for Śâradâ:
Sept. , . Explanations taken from Chandra Pandit, Purohita of Śâradâsthâna’’.
His signature follows. The ‘‘explanations’’ to which he refers are no doubt the various
annotations written in the margins in English in his own hand. They consist entirely
of identifications of the Kashmiri place-names rendered in Sanskrit in the text and
have been given here at the end of the edition.

Source: B = Bodleian, MS Stein Or. c. . This is part of a collection of local Māhāt-

myas, of which Stein reports as follows in a signed note a page before the text begins:
‘‘This Collection of Mâhâtmyas was purchased by me in Śrînagar, September ,
through Pandit Govind Kaul. It was written by Pt Dâmodar, son of Sâhibrâm, and
by his copyist for the use of Pt Sâhibrâm who about this time was collecting materials
for his Tîrthasam. graha. The Vijayeśvaramâhâtmyam was lost on my river journey to
Bîjabrôr. M. A. Stein.’’ The manuscript has been copied on large sheets of Kashmiri
paper numbered on each side, in the European manner, with Śāradā numerals. The
Śāradāmāhātmya begins on the page numbers , the folio numbered  in the con-
tinous pencilled arabic numeration.
In his essay on the shrine of Śāradā appended to his translation of the Rājataraṅgin. ī of
Kalhan. a (vol. , pp. –) Stein tells us that he was accompanied to the Śāradā-
sthāna by Chandra Pan. d. it of Gōtheng, whom he describes as one of the Purohitas
of the Śāradā temple who reside at Gus., in September of . The scribal date
Bhādra[pada] Śukla , [Laukika]  falls in this month.
According to the colophon the text is part of the Bhr. ṅgīśasam . hitā, more specifically
part of the section of that text devoted to giving ‘‘a summary account of the sacred sites
that have come into existence in the northern tract [of Kashmir]’’ (uttaravis.ayopajāta-
tīrthasam. grahah. ). The Bhr. ṅgīśasam
. hitā exists only for the purpose of bestowing the
status of scripture on tracts such as this that have been produced to promote pil-
grimages, no doubt by the humble Tīrthapurohitas whose living these pilgrimages


secure. The literary quality of the work is low, with a good quantity of lame rep-
etition, as, for example, in kimartham āgatā yūyam. brūtāgamanakāran. am (cd)
. . . brūtāgamanakr. tyam . me (cd). The Sanskrit is generally correct. But there is
a solecism in v. d, where mucyet has been allowed in place of mucyeta (mucyej
janmaśatodbhavaih. ), and there is a lesser deviation from the learned register of the
language in prasādayitvā (c). There is a case of loose syntax in c–b: snātvā
ca vapanam . kr. tvā śrāddham . kr. tvā maheśvari || sāks.ādbhūtā mahādevī śān. d. ilyam idam
abravīt.
Verses –, containing Śān. d. ilya’s hymn to the Goddess, show acquaintance
with idioms peculiar to Kashmirian Śākta Śaiva nondualism: viśvātmikām . viśvaparām .
(b); cidvimarśamahāśaktim . (a); cintyām acintyām. cetyām. ca cidvimarśavidhāyinīm
|| cidrūpām. (c–a); and saccidvimarśavimalām . paramārtharūpām | mānapramātr. -
rahitām . sthitim aprameyām . (c–b). But the author has combined these elements
with the Sām . khya-based concepts typical of Purān. ic composition, as in gun. ātītām .
gun. ātmikām || prakr. tim . vikr. tim
. divyām . śāradām. varadām. bhaje (c–b). The result-
ing amalgam is of a kind that would be disagreeable to the sensibility of more educated
Śaiva brahmins and no doubt reflects the text’s origin outside the higher, non-priestly
brahmin sub-caste to which this sensibility would mostly have been confined.
I have standardized the orthography throughout and inserted ’ to mark the absence
of initial a in Sandhi.

The Text

om
. atha śāradāmāhātmyam ||
bhairavy uvāca ||
bhairavy A : śrībhairavy B
 vada satyam . mahādeva śāradāvanam uttamam |
śān. d. ilyo yatra vai gatvā sarvān kāmān avāptavān ||
 anādinidhanā devī yathā bhūlokam āgamat |
śāradā nāma sā śaktis tridhā rūpam adhārayat ||
 tasyā māhātmyam īśāna vada lokahitepsayā |
kā ca devī parā yāsau śāradānāmadhārin. ī ||
bhairava uvāca ||
bhairava uvāca A : bhairava B
 śr.n. u vaks.ye mahādevi śāradāvanam uttamam |
yasya darśanamātren. a parām . siddhim avāpnuyāt ||
 mātaṅgakanyāsaṅgāc ca sam . bhūtas tatsarūpakah. |


 śān. d. ilyo nāma tanujo mahars.er bhāvitātma(v)nah. ||
 śyāmāṅgah. sa tamorūpah. pitrājñaptaś cacāra ha |
ghoram . tapo mahādevi mahādevādrisam . nidhau ||
d mahādevādri conj. : mahādevyadri AB

 jagattrān. ādikr.cchaktijapadhyānaparāyan. ah. |

nirāhāro yatātmā sa dadhyau devīm . sanātanīm ||
 evam. tu dhyāyatas tasya śān
..d ilyasya mahātmanah. |
prādur babhūva tu mahac chyāmalam . teja uttamam ||
c babhūva corr. : babhūvas A • chyāmalam
. A : chāmalam
. B
 adbhutam . tan munir dr.s.t.vā vismito na śaśāka ha |
kim. cid vaktum . ces.t.itum
. vā sthān. ubhūto maheśvari ||
 ks.an. enāntardadhe tat tu tejah. śyāmalam uttamam |
munih. sa vismito bhūyah. preks.yāntardhānam āgatam ||
 sasmāra pitaram . tatra śān. d. ilyo vana uttame |
tenāpi pres.itas tatra nārado munisattamah. ||
 (r) āgatya nāradah. prāha śān. d. ilyam . munisattamam |
dhyāyasva bhūyo viprāgrya yena darśanam āpsyasi ||

This verse is evidently the source of Stein’s assertion (Rājataraṅgin. ī translation, vol. , p. ) that
Śān. d. ilya is the son of the sage Mātaṅga. That view evidently comes from reading mātaṅgakanyāsaṅgāt
in a to mean ‘‘from the union of Mātaṅga and a girl’’, which is more amusing than plausible, since he
could hardly have produced a son from any other source. In any case this reading requires us to accept
that the father has been mentioned both inside the compound (mātaṅga-) and outside it (mahars.er
bhāvitātmanah. , which is even less plausible. The meaning intended is therefore surely ‘‘A son called
Śān. d. ilya was born to a great sage of cultivated soul as the result of his union with an untouchable
girl, resembling that [girl in complexion]’’. This makes perfect sense in the context. For we are told
elsewhere that Śān. d. ilya is dark-skinned (śyāmāṅgah. [a]) and will gain the fair complexion proper to
a brahmin (tatah. prāpsyasi svam . rūpam. brāhmam eva cd) through his propitiation of the Goddess
(vv. –). Later he is told that he now has a pure complexion/caste, one that has been freed of the
defect caused by the mingling of castes: varn. asam . karajād dos.āc chuddhavarn. o ’si sām . pratam (cd).
The name of his father is not mentioned. He is indeed a shadowy figure, who sends a proxy, the sage
Nārada (in v. ), when Śān. d. ilya communicates with him telepathically.

I have resorted to this conjecture () because there was never a Mt. Mahādevī in Kashmir to my
knowledge, () because the Mt. Mahādeva of my emendation is on the contrary a major feature of the
Kashmirian religious landscape (see, e.g., Somadeva, Kathāsaritsāgara .; Ks.emarāja, Śivasūtravi-
marśinī, p. ; Nīlamata ; the Mahādevagirimāhātmya of the Śarvāvatāra; Jayadrathayāmala, S. at.ka
, Ghoratarāsādhana, Pātālasiddhipat.ala, vv. c–: kaśmīrāyām . (f. r) śūlabhedam . *toyapūrn. am
.
(conj. : rotapūrn. a Cod.) bilottamam | vijaye ca varāhe ca jyes.t.he cottaramānase | tuṅgasvāmisamīpe
tu mahādevagirau tathā); () because it is appropriately located not far from the beginning of the
pilgrimage (Gus.), and () because the error is readily understood as one of approximate dittography,
the preceding word being mahādevi.


 śyāmalām . śyāmalāṅgīm . tām . śaktim . śaktimato ’naghām |
dr.s.t.vā tu tām agham. sarvam . nāśam āyāti tatks.an. āt ||
 ity uktvāntardadhe tatra nārado munisam . nidhau |
śrutvā devars.ivacanam . punar dadhyau sureśvari ||
 śatavars.am . dhyānaparah. śyāmāṅgīm . dr.s.t.avān munih. |
nutvā stutvā ca vidhinā śyāmāṅgīm . . sureśvari ||
tām
 sovāca tam . mahābhāga varam . varaya suvrata |
śrutvā tu tadvacah. saumyam . varadā cen maheśvarī ||
 mamāṅgāt sakalam . pāpam . vilayam . yātu tatks.a(v)n. āt |
iti śrutvā vacas tasya śān. d. ilyasya mahātmanah. ||
 provāca śyāmalā devī putra sarvam avāpsyasi |
iti gaccha mahārās.t.ram . śyāmalam . nāma namatah. ||
c ito B : iti A
 tatra draks.yasi tām . devīm. śāradām. trividhātmikām |
tatah. prāpsyasi svam . rūpam. brāhmam eva na sam . śayah. ||
 ity uktvā śān. d. ilyamunim . devī cāntardadhe tadā |
d cāntardhim āgatā B : cāntardadhe tadā A
smr.tvā vaco mahādevyāh. śyāmalāyā munīśvarah. ||
 pratasthe śyāmalam . nāma vis.ayam . sārvakāmikam |
tatra gatvā munir dhyānarato ghos.am . samr.ddhidam ||
 ghos.e dhyātvā mahādevīm . dadarśāgrasthitām . satīm |
stutā tatra maheśānī agra evādiśan munim ||
 (r) ito ’dūre muniśres.t.ha śāradāyā vanam . mahat |
tatra pravis.t.asya munes tamo naśyati tatks.an. āt ||
 tamonāśe ca svām eva prakr.tim . prāpsyasi dhruvam |
ity uktvāntardadhe devī hayaśīrs.āśrame munih. ||
d hayaśīrs.āśrame A : hars.aśīrs.āśrame B
 tato vanam . samāsādya kr.s.n. agaṅgām . samāśrayat |
dr.s.t.vā spr.s.t.vā ca vidhivac śyāmām . ga ṅgām. mahāmunih. |
 *suvarn. ārdhāṅgake gatvā param . tatra visismiye |
sauvarn. ārdhāṅgam udvīks.ya yayau bhūyo maheśvari ||
c suvarn. ārdhāṅgam udvīks.ya B : sauvarn. ārdhāṅgas tad vīks.ya A
 tatra vai śān. d. ilyamunih. suvarn. ārdhāṅga īks.itah. |
sa deśah. prathito ’dyāpi survarn. ārdhāṅgasam . jñayā ||
 suvarn. ārdhāṅgake deśe snānadānajapārcanaih. |
pu(v)n. yam. prāpnoti manujo vedapārāyan. e priye ||
 tasmāt sarvaprayatnena suvarn. ārdhāṅgake kalau |
snānam . tatra viśes.en. a brahmahatyām . vyapohati ||
 mahāpātakayukto vā yukto vāpy upapātakaih. |


snātvā śrīkr.s.n. agaṅgāyām. mucyej janmaśatodbhavaih. ||
 tatas tu girim āruhya munih. paramakārun. ah. |
pratasthe darśanākāṅks.ī devyāh. prāpad dhi nāt.akam ||
 dadarśa nāt.akam . tatra devīnām . vismito munih. |
namaskr.tya ca devīnām . gan. am
. raṅgam upeyivān ||
 devyas tu dr.s.tvā tatraiva survarn. ārdhāṅgakam . munim |
parasparam athocus tāh. suvarn. ārdhāṅgako munih. ||
 (r) sarvāṅgasundaro bhūtvā gacched iti na sam . śayah. |
tathety uktvā maheśāni devīnām . gan. a uttamah. ||
 nāt.yam . kr.tvā tena saha tato ’ntardhānam āgatah. ||
tatra devīgan. am . nāt.yaparam . dr.s.t.vā sa vai munih. |
 tan nālam . prakat.ībhūtam . raṅgavāt.yām . maheśvari |
dr.s.t.vā devīvanam . tatra raṅgavāt.yabhidham . param ||
d abhidham
. param conj. : abhidhe param AB
 mucyate ghorapāpaughair janmajanmāntarodbhavaih. |
tato dr.s.t.vādbhutam
. divyam. raṅgavāt.ābhidham. vanam ||
 gandharvanagarākāram . pratasthe vismito munih.|
b vismitah. A : vismaye B
tato ’gre tasya deveśi śān. d. ilyasya mahāmuneh. ||
 gostambho hy abhavat tatra raṅgadarśanavismitah. | anelamūko hy a(v)bhavad
yatra vai vismito munih. ||
 tad vanam . prathitam. loke gostambhanasamākhyayā |
gostambhanavanam . .t.vā snātvā dattvā yathāvidhi ||
drs
 mucyate ghorahatyābhir iti satyena te śape |
a ghorahatyābhir A : ghorahatyādibhir B
tato hy anelamūkah. sa munih. paramavismitah. ||
 prāpya tejavanam . nāma gaṅgātīre dadarśa sah. |
munim . gautamam āsīnam . gatvā natvā ca bhūriśah. ||
 anelamūkam śān
. .. d ilyam apr.cchat kr.payā munih. |
dr.s.t.am
. kim adbhutam . brahmann atra divye mahāvane ||
d brahmann atra B : brahman tatra A
 śaktiprasādāt prāpnosi varam etan na sam . śayah. |
tamobhūtas tamorūpas tāmasas tāmasodbhavah. ||
 suvarn. āṅgo bhavān yasmāt sam
. panno darśanena yah. |
sa evānelamūko ’si vismayād dvijasattama ||
c evānelamūko A : evānīlamūko B
 snānāc ca paramam . tejah. sthānam. prāpsyasi cottamam |
śrutvā tasya vaco divyam. snātvā pun. ye ca vārin. i ||


 gostambhān muktim āsādya tejah. param āvāptavān |
tat tejah. paramam . drs.t.vā munih. śān. d. ilyanāmakah. ||
 gautamam . pratyuvācainam . tejasvī paramādarāt |
mune ko ’yam . prabhāvo ’sti ks.etre yasya prabhāvatah. ||
 yasya darśanato jātam . mama tejah. param . mune |
śrutvā muner gautamo ’pi vacas tat paramam . priye ||
 pratyuvāca munim . tatra kim āścaryen. a vai dvija |
iti śrutvā prasthitaś ca bhūyo ’gre surasundari ||
 yatra mukto maheśāni gostambhāt sa munih. parah. |
tejah. para(v)makam . prāpa sa deśah. pāvanah. smr.tah. ||
 tat tejavanam . nāma ks.etram . paramapāvanam |
prayatnena tu tatks.etre snātavyam amareśvari ||
 mucyate ghorahatyābhih. snānadhyānajapārcanaih. |
mahāpātakayukto vā yukto vāpy upapātakaih. ||
 uttejane mahāks.etre mucyate ghorasam . kat.āt |
uttejanasamam . ks.etram . divi bhuvy antariks.ake ||
 ghorapāpaharam . divyam . na bhūtam . na bhavis.yati |
tato girim . samāruhya śān ..d ilyah . prasthito munih. ||
 dr.s.t.vāgre gan. apam . divyam . vighnakartāram īśvaram |
prasādayitvā deveśam . vighnānām . nāyakam . param ||
 (r) tadājñayā jagāmāgre vanam . pun. yam atandritah. |
dr.s.t.vā pun. yam . vanam . divyam . śāradāyā maheśvari |
tatrācarat tapo ghoram . divyavars . asahasrakam ||
f divya corr. : divyam
. AB
 divyavars.asahasrānte śrīśailaśikharāt priye |
śyāmalā dhavalā devī raktā cāvir babhūva ha ||
 drs.t.vā tu devīm . tām. tatra śārām. vars.asahasrakam |
yasmād raktā ca śyāmā ca śvetā ca varavarn. ini ||
 tasmāt proktā purāvidbhih. śāradā nāmanāmatah. |
śikharāgre ca dr.s.t.vā tām. devīm. trividhavigrahām ||
 munir vismayam āpannas tasthau smaran. atatparah. |
śārībhūtā yato devī dr.s.t.ā te tenātra mauninā ||
d tenātra mauninā B : nātra sam
. śayah. A
 tatah. proktā purāvidbhih. śāradeti maheśvari |
(v) śaratkāle yato devī pūjitā sarvajantubhih. ||
 tatah. proktā purāvidbhih. śāradā nāma nāmatah. |
nāma nāmatah. A : nāmatah. B
śavaleti yato devi proktā trividhavigrahā ||
 śāradā nāradā caiva vāgdevīti ca socyate |
d ca socyate A : socyate B


nāradasyopadeśena yā dr.s.t.ā śyāmalāṅgakā ||
 sarasvatīti sā proktā vākstambhān mucyate yayā |
nirmalā yā ca muninā dr.s.t.ā trividhavigrahā ||
 śrīśailaśikhare pun. ye śāradeti matā ca sā |
dr.s.t.vā devīm . tatra munih. pran. amāma ciram . mudā ||
 dan. d. avat patito bhūtvā girā paramayaid. ayat ||
śrīśān. d. ilya uvāca ||
 devīm . cidānandamayīm ajasram .
viśvātmikām . viśvaparām . (r) jayantīm |
tamopahartrīm . manasā pareśīm .
tām . śāradākhyām . śaran. am . prapadye ||  pāpaih. śavalito yasmān mocito ’smi svabhāvatah.
|
tasmāt tvām . śāradām . nāma pravadantu manīs.in. ah. ||
d pravadantu B : pravadanti A
 cidvimarśamahāśaktim . paramānandadāyinīm |
śaranam . devadeveśīm. tvām eva gatavān aham ||
 rajastamovyaktarūpām omityekāks.arātmikām |
śaran. am
. yāmi tām. devīm. śāradām. śavalām
. parām ||
 aghorām . ghorarūpām tām
. . ghoraghoratarām. śubhām |
b ghoraghoratarām
. A : ghorāghoratamām
. B
śarvān. īm
. cātha rudrān. īm
. mr.d. ānīm
. tām. namāmy aham ||
 śatarudrām . parām. nityām . śāradām . tām. nato ’smy aham |
mahākālāgninā grastam . jagat trā(v)tum ihodyatām ||
d ihodyatām B : ihodyatā A
 parāsvarūpām . paramām . śāradām . tām nato ’smy aham |
mahākālāgnirūpām . tām . sthitisam . hārakārin. īm ||  jagatsthitikarīm
. devī śāradām
. śaran. am
.
śraye |
śyāmām . śavalitāpāṅgām . śarmadām . bhārgavārcitām ||
 nāradānugrahakarīm . nāradām . śaran. am
. śraye |
vākstambhamocanīm . bhadrām . mahaduttejanīm . parām ||
 gautamenārcitām . durgām . śāradām . varadām. bhaje |
cintyām acintyām . cetyām . ca cidvimarśavidhāyinīm ||
 cidrūpām . cārunayanām . śāradām . śaran. am
. śraye |
ghorakānanasam . līnām . trividhām . trisvarūpin. īm ||
a cārunayanām
. B. : cāhanayanām
. A
 śrīśaile triput.ām
. devīm
. śāradām
. tām
. bhajāmahe |
(r) kāmakrodhabhavonmādagrastamoks.avidhāyinīm ||
a triput.ām
. conj. : trikut.ām
. AB


  tripurām
. trividhāvāsān. śāradām
. nāradām . bhaje |
bhaktābhayakarīm . devīm
. varacāpaśarāṅkitām ||
b nāradām
. conj. : nārado A
 triśūlakhat.vāṅgadharām . trinetrām . cāruhāsinīm |
s.ad. bhujām s ad gun
. . . . . ām ramyām . gun. ātītām. gun. ātmikām ||
 prakr.tim. vikr tim
. . divyām . śāradām . varadām . bhaje |
atītānāgatām . divyām . mahāmāyāsvarūpin. īm ||
 brahmavis.n. uśivātītaparyaṅkāsanasam . sthitām |
mahāmohaparigrastām . mahāmohasvarūpin . īm ||
 mohāndhitajanoddhārām . śāradām . varadām . bhaje |
dīnānāthaparitrān. aparāyan. aparāyan. ām ||
 mādr.kpra(v)pannapaśupāśavimocanīm . tām
.
saccidvimarśavimalām. paramārtharūpām |
mānapramātr.rahitām. sthitim aprameyām .
tām. śāradām
. bhuvanakośagatām . nato ’smi ||

c māna conj. : mānyam
. B mānyām
. A
 iti stutvā mahādevīm . śān. d. ilyah. kānane śubhe |
cakāra sa munis tatra tapah. pāpanirbarhan. am ||
 vāyubhaks.o nirāhāro devīdarśanalālasah. |
evam. sam . caratas tasya duścaram . paramam . tapah. ||
 jagāma sumahān kālo devī prītā babhūva ha |
d ha A : ca B
atropahāram . vaks.yāmi tac chr. n. us.va sureśvari ||
 sā ca devī pratus.yeta paśum
. dr..st.vā vārdhrīn. asam |
paśur api parām. muktim . labhate nātra sam . śayah. ||
b vārdhrīn. asam B : vārdhīn. asam A
 vais.n. avo ’pi naras tatra (r) brāhman. ah. ks.atriyo ’thavā |
vaiśyo vāpi prakurvīta homam . paśupurah. saram ||
 vais.n. avo naiva bhuñjīta vratadhārī tathaiva ca |
mām . sam. vārdhrīn. asasyāsya na dos.as tatra vidyate ||

This emendation is guided by such Kashmirian Śaiva parallels as Tantrāloka .: naumi cit-
pratibhām . devīm . parām
. bhairavayoginīm | mātr. mānaprameyām . śaśūlāmbujakr. tāspadām; Parātrim
. śikā-
vivaran. a on ab: mātr. mānameyamayabhedāvibhāgaśālinī bhagavatī; Trivandrum Mahānayaprakāśa
.: yathākramam . mānameyamātr. rūpatayā bahih. | khacakrāt prasr. tam
. viśvam
. paraśaktisvabhāvatah. ;
.: meyamānapramātrātma bahih. siddham apīha yat | tat prakāśam . vinā sidhyen na katham. cana
kasyacit; .: tato viśvasya sam. sthānam ā mūlāt pratipāditam | mānameyapramātrātma mūrticakrā-
ntam ity atah. ; .ab: meyamānapramātr. tvavicitrakramarūpatah. ; commentary on the Old Kashmiri
Mahānayaprakāśa p. ,–: mātr. mānameyānām . vibhāgo yatra ciddhāmni galati tadāsādanarūpah.
śāktakramah. śāktasiddhānām . viśrāmah. .


 c vārdhrīn. asasyāsya em. : vārdhīn. asasyāsya A
amām . sabhojanah. śambhus tus.yate nātra sam . śayah. |
devī cāpi sureśāni sadā prītikarā bhavet ||
 modakair matsyamām . saiś ca gan. anātham . prapūjayet |
ity es.a pat.alo guhyo pāvanah. prītivardhanah. ||
 tathā tapasi saktasya prasannābhūn maheśvarī |
devī durvāsasā sārdham . munibhiś ca samāyayau ||
 dr.s.t.vā devīm . puras tatra śān. d. ilyo dan. d. avat ks.itau |
papāta punar utthāpya devī śān. d. ilyam abravīt ||
 śrīśailopari (v) śān. d. ilya matpārśve tu ciram . vasa |
maddarśanāc ca yat pun. yam . tad bhavaddarśanād api ||
 uttis.t.ha śīghram . putra tvam . matpārśve sannidhim . kuru |
dāsyāmi vedām . s tatraiva sā ṅgān api ca putraka ||
 tri-r.n. āc caiva moks.yāmi satyam . jānīhi mānada |
a tri-r.n. āc B : trisr.n. āś A
ity uktvā tatra śān. d. ilyam . devadevī maheśvarī ||
 tatraivāntarhitā bhūtvā śrīśailoparisam . sthitā |
śān. d. ilyo ’pi yayau tatra yatra devī pratis.t.hitā ||
 gacchatas tasya deveśi śān. d. ilyasya mahātmanah. |
ardhāṅgam . tu suvarn. asya babhūva kila sundari ||
 ardhāṅgam . tu suvarn. asya dr.s.t.vā hr.s.t.o bhavan munih. |
vismayam . paramam . prāpto manasaitad acintayat ||
 (r) kim . mamā ṅgam . suvarn. asya phalam . kasyais.a karman. ah. |
rās.t.rasya mahimā ko ’pi tathā tīrthajalasya ca ||
 athavā devadevyās tu śāradāyāh. prasādatah. |
ittham . cintayatas tasya śān. d. ilyasya mahāmuneh. ||
 vismitasya mahādevi pitaro dr.s.t.im āgatāh. |
dr.s.t.vā pitr.gan. ām . s tatra śān. d. ilyah. puratah. sthitān ||
 uvāca vismitah. ke vai bhavantah. puratah. sthitāh. |
kimartham āgatā yūyam . brūtāgamanakāran. am ||
 bhavatām . kim . karaś cāsmi avilambena sattamāh. |
brūtāgamanakr.tyam . me samudyukto smi tatkr.te ||
pitara ūcuh. ||
pitara ūcuh. A : pitarah. B
 vayam . te pitarah. putra ks.īn. āh. smo ’tha ciram . samāh. |
varn. asam
. karajād dos . āc chuddhavarn . o (v) ’si sām. pratam ||

Stein proposes that vv. c– are an interpolation. Vv. ab and ab, which this passage
separates, do seem to go together.


c varn. asam
. karajād conj. : varn. asam
. karakād AB
 adhunā pātum icchāmas tvatta eva jalāñjalīn |
dātum arhasi nah. putra sindhau śrāddham anuttamam ||
 jalāñjalim apīdānīm asmākam . tr.ptikāran. āt |
b tr.ptikāran. āt B : tr.ptikāran. am A
yo ’rhah. san naiva pit ]n. ām . dadāti jalatarpan. am ||
 śrāddham . vāpi .
muniśres .t.ha sa daridrah. prajāyate |
nirapatyah. kulacchedakārakaś caiva putraka ||
 tasmād āryaih. sadā deyah. pitr.bhyas tu jalāñjalih. |
śrāddham . madhughr.tair vāpi phalair vā gud. apāyasaih. ||
 tūs.n. īm
. babhūvur deveśi munim . procya prahars.itāh. |
pitaras te tadā sarve śān. d. ilyam . prāñjalim . sthitam ||
bhairava uvāca ||
 śrutvā tes.ām vacah. saumyam . śān. d. ilyaś cātivismr.tah. |
(r) uvāca pit ]n sam . stutya vācā paramayā mudā ||
 adhunaiva pitr. .gan. āh. sindhau dāsyāmi vo jalam |
vapanam . tu karis.yāmi pit ]n. ām . śrāddhaśuddhaye ||
 kr.tvā hi vapanam . .
tatra śrāddham . kurvanti ye narāh. |
c tatra A : ye tu B
tr.ptāh. syuh. pitaras tes.ām. kart ]n. ām. ca mahāphalam ||
 ity evam uktvā pitr.bhyas .tān sam . tos.ya mahātapāh. |
kr.tvā tu vapanam . tatra śān
..d ilyo munisattamah . ||
 cakāra vidhivac chrāddham . pitr.bhyas tr.ptihetave |
śān. d. ilyaś caiva devebhyah. pitr.bhyaś ca dadau jalam ||
 śān. d. ilyahastād deveśi mahāsindhujalam . tadā |
ks.audram eva babhūvāśu pit ]n. ām . .tr ptikāran. am ||
.
 sindhoh. sro(v)to mahādevi munihastagatam . tadā |
b tadā B : yadā A
ardham . ks.audramayam . jātam . pit ]n. ām. tr.ptihetave ||
 yadāprabhr.ti śān. d. ilyah. pit ]n. sam. tr.ptavāñ jalaih. |
tatah. sindhupravāhasya nāmābhūn . madhumaty api ||
 suvarn. o jagadīśāni śān. d. ilyo nāma vai munih. |
babhūva paramaprītah. pit ]n. ām . tr.ptikāran. āt ||
.
d tr.ptikāran. āt B : tr.ptikāran. am A
 tato ’gre madhumatyāś ca sindhoh. sam . gama eva ca |
snātvā ca vapanam . kr.tvā śrāddham . kr.tvā maheśvari ||
 sāks.ādbhūtā mahādevī śān. d. ilyam idam abravīt |
bhrājamānatanum . tvām . ye vane ’mus.min pratis.t.hitam ||


 mām . cāpi trividhām. cārya ye paśyanti narottamāh. |
te siddhāh. kathitāh. putra (r) pāpamuktā na sam . śayah. ||
 mahāpātakayukto vā yukto vāpy upapātakaih. |
ks.etram
. pīt.heśvarākhyam . ca dr.s.t.vā mucyeta kilbis.aih. ||
 ity uktvā tam . munim . devī tūs.n. īm āsa maheśvari |
tasmāt sarvaprayatnena śāradāvanam āśrayet ||
 ghos.am . gatvā ca nutvā ca ghos.āvāsāñ janān api |
a nutvā ca A : nutvā B
upos.ya rajanīm ekām . s.at. tisro dvādaśaiva vā ||
 āhvānārcanapādyārghyamadhuparkair yathākramam |
sam . pūjya bhojayitvā ca maṅgaloccārapūrvakam ||
 suvarn. āṅgam . tato gatvā tejanīsindhusam . game |
vapanam . vidhivat kr
. tvā śrāddham . caiva yathāvidhi ||
 śān. d. ilyamadhumatyoś ca sam . game lokaviśrute |
s.as.t.is tī(v)rthasahasrān. i s.as.t.is tīrthaśatāni ca ||
 kurvanti sam . nidhānam . ca māsi bhādrapade sadā |
śuklapaks.e caturthyām . ca tathānyāsu ca sarvadā ||
 caturdaśyām . ca śuklāyām . tvatprasādān maheśvari |
gostambhanam athābhyarcya praviśen munikānanam ||
 munim . dr.s.t.vā tato devi śāradām . trividhātmikām |
sam . pūjya parayā bhaktyā dhūpaih . kusumacandanaih . ||
 ks.īrakhan. d. ājyadhūpaiś ca dīpaih. karpūravartikaih. |
naivedyair ghr.tapakvaiś ca balidānair anekaśah. ||
 pūjayed vidhinā devīm . vastrālam . kārabhūs.an. aih. |
kumārīh. pūjayec cāpi tathā brāhman. apūjanaih. ||
 godānair aśvadānaiś ca kanthāvastrānnabhūs.an. aih. |
a(r)ks.ayam . phalam āpnoti satyam . satyam . varānane ||
 aputrinah. sutān yogyān nirdhanāś ca dhanam . bahu |
a sutān B : putrān A
mūrkhaś ca śobhanām . vidyām . rogin. ah. svāsthyam āpnuyuh. ||
 svargam . ca narakād bhītās tathā moks.am . mumuks.avah. |
śāradām . gantukāmasya gr. hāt prabhr . ti sundari ||
 padāni kramamān. asya yāvanto bhūmiren. avah. |
pade pade ’śvamedhasya phalam āpnoti mānavah. ||
 upos.ya rajanīm ekām . tisrah. s.ad. dvādaśaiva vā |
āhvānārcanapādyārghyamadhuparkair yathākramam ||
 nr.ttagītais tathā vādyair bhogair dānais tathā gr.haih. |
hastyaśvarathayānaiś ca vāsobhih. śayanais tathā ||
 śāradāks.etramāhātmyam . nālam . vaktum . caturmukhah. |
śes.o nālam
. phalam . vaktum . prabhāvam . cāpi sundari ||


d prabhāvam
. A : prabhavam
. B
 iti tat kathitam . tubhyam
. yat pr.s.t.o ’ham iti tvayā |
adhunā devadeveśi kim anyac chrotum icchasi ||
 ity es.a pat.alo guhyo mahāpātakahā kalau |
śrutvā pat.hitvā mucyeta kot.ijanmabhavād aghāt ||

iti śrībhr.ṅgīśasam. hitāyām uttaravis.ayopajātatīrthasam

. grahe śāradāmāhātmyam . samāp-
tam || sam . vat  bhādraśuklanavamyām . saumyavāsare samāpitam idam ||
sic A : iti śrībhr.ṅgīśasam
. hitāyām uttaravis.ayopajātatīrthasaṅgrahe śāradāmāhātmyam B

Stein’s marginalia in A:

. hayaśīrs.āśrame (d): Hâyahôm

. kr.s.n. agaṅgām
. (b): Kishangaṅgâ
. survarn. ārdhāṅgake (a): Sunĕ-Drang (called by Musulmans Drang) with Kr.s.n. anāga
. raṅgavāt.yām (b): Raṅgavâr (name of wallnut grove at Gush, also of a forest
below the Drang pass on N)
. gostambho (a): Guthamman, name of an aloine meadow below Bhairavasthâna
. gostambhanasamākhyayā (b): Guthamman
. tejavanam. (a): Tehajan on Krishangaṅgā
. gan. apam
. (a): Ganesha’s mount seen between Tejan and Śâradâ. vl. Śirah. śilā
. sindhau (a): Kishangaṅgâ called by Paharis Sindhu
. mahāsindhu (b): The water for Śrâddhas is taken at Sangam
. pīt.heśvarākhyam
. (c): Pitheśvara is called a place below the Śâradâ temple on
Madhumatī bank
. suvarn. āṅgam
. (a): Sunĕ-Drang
. tejanī (d): Tejan-Sindh
. śān. d. ilyamadhumatyoś: Cf. for dual Rā̂j. sindhor madhumatīmuktāśriparantaristhitam
.
The Madhumatī originates from two rivulets, meeting above Śâradâ. But see also
p.  of Mâh.
. on vv. c–b, which he has bracketed: [] interpolated

