Mantramahodadhi (with the author's Nauka commentary)
Mantramahodadhi (with the author's Nauka commentary) — what it is, what it added, and what we retired from it.
Mantramahodadhi (with the author’s Nauka commentary) — Mahidhara, translated by a Board of Scholars (Sri Satguru Publications, UNESCO Indian Series).
Edition consulted: Sri Garib Dass Oriental Series No. 12, Delhi.
What kind of text this is
Dates itself precisely by colophon to Vikram 1645 = 1589 CE. But the modern editor states he was never initiated, that printed books in this field are ‘full of printing mistakes both typographical as well as editorial’, that manuscripts destroyed under foreign rule ‘may have been rewritten from memory by some not so good scholars’, and that ‘even today spurious texts are being published with attractive get up’.
What it contributed
authority-does-not-contain-the-claim — novel. A 3,300-verse tantric mantra compendium with essentially no planetary-remedy content - one navagraha hit in 181,737 words.
Second independent branch showing the remedy market cites upstream authorities that do not contain what is attributed to them. The first was BPHS and gemstones.
uninitiated-editor-vs-esoteric-warrant — contradiction. The editor of an initiatory compendium states he was never initiated.
The esoteric-warrant claim is made about a literature transmitted in print by uninitiated editors.
dated-colophon — novel. Dates itself to Vikram 1645 = 1589 CE by closing verse.
A text dating itself by a fact of composition rather than by prophecy.
Reading the text yourself
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