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V Subrahmanian

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Jul 19, 2018, 3:29:45 AM7/19/18
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Namaste

The following page says the text 'Bharata Savitri' is an appendix to the Harivamsha, which it itself an appendix of the Mahabharata.  Are there any citations from this work  or reference to this work by name in any important works by noted authors? 



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harindranath

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Jul 19, 2018, 8:23:32 AM7/19/18
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As Shri Desiraju Hanumanta Rao says in his introductory note,
the Chitrashala Press Edition  (1936) of Harivamsha with commentary of Nilakantha and  edited by Pandit Ramachandrashastri Kinjawadekar has Bharata Savitri as the last content.
For those interested,
the full list of contents of the Chitrashala edition of HV is available at http://www.dvaipayana.net/harivamsa/cs-toc.html
where you can download the sections in pdf format.

In the prAstAvikam, available  at
you can find shri Kinjawadekar's reason for including Bharata Savitri.
In the text of Bharata Savitri he has given the pAThabheda-s he found in the manuscripts that he consulted.

IMHO there are many interesting shlokas in there.
As far as I know, very few scholars seem to be aware of it, apart from the ones cited by Shri Desiraju Hanumanta Rao.
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Harindranath

V Subrahmanian

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Jul 19, 2018, 10:52:50 AM7/19/18
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On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 5:53 PM, harindranath <harindrana...@gmail.com> wrote:
As Shri Desiraju Hanumanta Rao says in his introductory note,
the Chitrashala Press Edition  (1936) of Harivamsha with commentary of Nilakantha and  edited by Pandit Ramachandrashastri Kinjawadekar has Bharata Savitri as the last content.
For those interested,
the full list of contents of the Chitrashala edition of HV is available at http://www.dvaipayana.net/harivamsa/cs-toc.html
where you can download the sections in pdf format.

Namaste

Many thanks for these links.  I have one question:  Has NilakanTha commented on the Bharata Savitri portion too?

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shankara

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Jul 19, 2018, 11:35:49 AM7/19/18
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Namaste,

VS Agarwal provides an interesting explanation of the title 'Bharata Savitri' in the preface to his work named 'Bharatasavitri', a study of the Mahabharata, which is available online here. 

‘भारत सावित्री’ नाम महाभारत के अन्त में आया है। जैसे वेदों का सार गायत्री मन्त्र या सावित्री है, वैसे ही सम्पूर्ण महाभारत का सार धर्म शब्द में है। भारत-युद्ध की कथा तो निमित्त मात्र है, इसके आधार पर महाभारत के मनीषी लेखक ने युद्ध-कथा को धर्म-संहिता के रूप में परिवर्तित कर दिया था। धर्म की नित्य महिमा को बताने के लिए ग्रन्थ के अन्त में यह श्लोक हैः

न जातु कामान्न भयान्न लोभाद् धर्म त्यजेज्जीवितास्यापि हेतोः।
नित्यो धर्मः सुखदुःखे त्वनित्ये नित्यो जीवो धातुरस्य त्वनित्यः।।

अर्थात - काम से, भय से, लोभ से अथवा प्राणों के लिए भी धर्म को छोड़ना उचित नहीं। धर्म नित्य है, सुख और दुःख क्षणिक हैं। जीव नित्य है और शरीर (धातु) अनित्य है।

इस श्लोक की संज्ञा भारत सावित्री है।

regards
shankara


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harindranath

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Jul 20, 2018, 7:55:01 AM7/20/18
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The four shlokas 87-90 starting with "mAtApit^RisahasrANi" which appear in the 100 shloka Bharata Savitri presented at
are popularly known as Bharata Savitri and appear in the fifth adhyAya of Svargarohanaparva of Mahabharata as shlokas 60-63. But in his Bhavadipa commentary on Mahabharata, Nilakantha has not commented  on these. He just says
"sandhyAyAM bhArataM paThanIyamityuktam |
tatra paThanayogyaM bhAratasArasamgrahaM chatushlokIrUpamAha -- mAteti ||"

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Harindranath

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