This text treats certain rites pertaining to gaṇeśa's festival. The four topics, given bellow in the contents are missing in IFI.T.39 and 40, but are found in IFI.T.183 (pp.322-338) with slight variations for gaṇeśotsava and in IFI.T.534 (pp.230-236) for the remaining three

Text Contents

1.Folio 174a - 175b.gaṇeśārcana; marginal heading is vighneśvaranityapūjai.

2.Folio 175b - 176a.vighneśacaṇḍeśalakṣaṇa.

3.Folio 176a - 177a.nityotsavavidhi.

4.Folio 178a - 183b.gaṇe'sotsava.

Manuscript Beginning

athātassampravakṣyāmi vighneśayajanaṃ param। bhuktimuktipradannṛṇāṃ putrapautravivardhanam॥ grāmavṛddhikaraṃ puṇyaṃ sarvavighnanivāraṇam। grāme vā nagare vāpi pattane kheṭake'pi vā॥ pure vā kubjake vāpi viśeṣādrājadhānike। eteṣu kalpayeddhīmān vighneśasyālayantataḥ॥

Manuscript Ending

āyurārogyajayadaṃ sadā vijayavardhanam। iha loke śubhaṃ prāpya tadante jñānasiddhidam॥ prāyaścittārthakarmāṇi prāyaścittoktavartmanā। mantrabhedaviśeṣo'sti kriyābhedo na vidyate॥ tasmāt sāmānyamevoktaṃ sarvadhāmasu pūjitam। iti svāyambhuve gaṇeśotsavapaṭalaḥ॥

Bibliography

Some chapters in this bundle appear in the svāyambhuvasūtrasaṅgraha, part of which has been Printed under the title: 1/ svāyambhuvasūtrasaṅgrahaḥ, ed. by Veṅkaṭasubramaṇyaśāstri, pub. Rājakīyaśākhamudrālya, Mysore, 1937. 2/ svāyambhuvasūtrasaṅgrahaḥ - vidyāpādaḥ with the commentary of sadyojyoti, pun. Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and Motilal Banarsidass, New Delhi, (kalāmūlaśāstra Granthamāla 13) 1994. 3/ A French version printed unter the title "le tantra de Svayambhū, Vidyāpāda, avec le commentaire de sadyojyoti in the collection of, by Filliozat Pierre Sylvain

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Complete

No. in Descriptive Catalog

118.26

Key

manuscripts_001453

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Svāyambhuvāgama - Gaṇeśotsavavidhi, in Digital Collections, Institut Français de Pondichéry, Manuscripts of the Indology Collection, consulted on September, 11th 2025, https://digitalcollections.ifpindia.org/s/manuscripts/item/378602