INTRODUCTION
was Kuppanna. When he became the chief of the Kamakotipitha, his name was changed to Mahadevendra Sarasvati. He performed severe penance in a cave in a mountain called Vyasacala and attained divinity on the first day of Krsnapaksa of the month of Asadha. For this reason he is also called as Vyasacala Mahendra Sarasvati and for the same reason, his SANKARAVIJAYA is called VYASACALIYA or the work of Vyasacala.
In preparing this edition of the SANKARAVIJAYA the following six manuscripts were made use of :
(1) R. No. 6833 : Transcribed manuscript, Complete. Deposited in the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library, Madras.
(2) R. No. 7715 : Transcribed manuscript. Deposited in the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library, Madras.
(3) A palm-leaf manuscript belonging to the Maharaja Serfoji's Sarasvati Mahal Library, Tanjore, bearing the No. 4209.
(4) A manuscript from the Adyar Library, Madras, bearing the No. 40-A-89. (This is marked as अ)
(5) A palm-leaf manuscript belonging to the Kanci Kamakoti- pitha Matha in Kumbakonam. This manuscript is of two parts (Nos. 298 and 1897) and incomplete. The first contains only up to the sixty-ninth verse in the ninth chapter. The second begins with the seventieth verse of the ninth chapter and omits the first twenty verses in the twelfth Sarga. (This is marked as क.)
(6) A paper manuscript from the same Matha. This has no number and omits the last three verses. (This is marked as का.)
My heartfelt thanks are due to the Heads of the various Libraries who lent me their manuscripts and to Srimans V. R. Kalyanasundara Sastrigal, N. S. Ramanujam, M. S. Vaidyanatha Sastrigal and T. H. Visvanatha Sastrigal for their untiring efforts in bringing forth this edition by helping me in preparing the press copy, contents and the index.
- T. CHANDRASEKHARAN,
- Curator,
- T. CHANDRASEKHARAN,
GOVERNMENT ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS
- LIBRARY, MADRAS-5
- Dated, 3rd November 1953,
