Guest guest Posted September 9, 2003 Report Share Posted September 9, 2003 Further to my search for Jaiminiya Bharata, I came to understand that this book is published by Gita Press, Gorakhpur as "Jaimini Asvamedha Parva" book no. 0637 priced at Rs.50. This book isn't available in Chennai. I've written to them to send me a copy. The relevant chapter is chapter 32 of this book.If someone has a quicker access to this book, it will be interesting! Thanks Narasimhan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 9, 2003 Report Share Posted September 9, 2003 achintya, ranganathan narasimhan <simhan74> wrote: > Hare Krishna, > Further to my search for Jaiminiya Bharata, I came to understand that this book is published by Gita Press, Gorakhpur as "Jaimini Asvamedha Parva" book no. 0637 priced at Rs.50. This book isn't available in Chennai. I've written to them to send me a copy. The relevant chapter is chapter 32 of this book.If someone has a quicker access to this book, it will be interesting! > This is too good to be true. Please let us know when you get it. - K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 9, 2003 Report Share Posted September 9, 2003 achintya, ranganathan narasimhan <simhan74> wrote: > Hare Krishna, > Further to my search for Jaiminiya Bharata, I came to understand that this book is published by Gita Press, Gorakhpur as "Jaimini Asvamedha Parva" book no. 0637 priced at Rs.50. This book isn't available in Chennai. I've written to them to send me a copy. The relevant chapter is chapter 32 of this book.If someone has a quicker access to this book, it will be interesting! > I'm still not clear on something. Who is the author of this text and when was it written? Is it a part of the Pancharaatras, Tantras, Puraanas, or what? Also, I'm curious as to how widely it is accepted. - K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 10, 2003 Report Share Posted September 10, 2003 achintya, ranganathan narasimhan wrote:> Hare Krishna,> Further to my search for Jaiminiya Bharata, I came to understand that this book is published by Gita Press, Gorakhpur as "Jaimini Asvamedha Parva" book no. 0637 priced at Rs.50. This book isn't available in Chennai. I've written to them to send me a copy. The relevant chapter is chapter 32 of this book.If someone has a quicker access to this book, it will be interesting!> I'm still not clear on something. Who is the author of this text and when was it written? Is it a part of the Pancharaatras, Tantras, Puraanas, or what? Also, I'm curious as to how widely it is accepted.- K Dear Prabhu, This book is attributed to Jaimini. Just like Sri Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata, this book Jaimini Bharata was written by Jaimini. Atleast many Indologists accept it so. Much of this book is lost.Infact, I came to understand that whatever is remaining was preserved by the Vaishnavas( which sect I donot know) .Sri Locana Dasa Thakura writes as follows in the Chaitanya Mangala, after descibing Krishna showing his form of Gauranga to Rukmini, Narada & Uddhava - "If you do not believe me, look for yourself in the 32nd chapter of the asvamedha parva of the Jaimini Bharata." This is the reply I received from Dr.Petteri Koskikallio, an indologist: Dear Mr. Narasimhan,Thank you for your message. It is nice to see that you are interested onthe Jaiminiya Bharata, a very interesting text indeed. Together with Dr.Christophe Vielle from Belgium, we have worked on Epic and Puranic worksattributed to Jaimini. We are not preparing a critical edition of thistext yet, but that is one of our plans. We have written an introductoryarticle on Jaimini text of this sort and it will be published in thenext number of Indologica Taurinensia, Turin, Italy. The Sanskrit text of the Jaiminiya Bharata (or Jaiminiya-asvamedha asit is normally called) is available in India. The book"Jaiminiiyashvamedham" is published by Gita Press, Gorakhpur(Publication no. 0637). The price is very reasonable. The whole text isincluded. Some early 20th-century translations of this Sanskrit text into SouthIndian languages (at least into Malayalam - if I remember correctly)should be found in the library of the University of Madras. There arealso two identical Tamil prose translations of the text (entitled"Asvametaparvam" by Nataraja Svami and Subrahmanya Svami, both publishedin 1922), but those books are rare ones.With best wishes,Petteri Koskikallio----------------------Petteri KoskikallioKorpihovintie 65FIN 58910 Rantasalmi as.FINLANDe-mail: petteri.koskikallio (AT) helsinki (DOT) fi These if true will put the "Svarna varna hemango" translation in the right perspective. Hare Krishna Narasimhan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 10, 2003 Report Share Posted September 10, 2003 Ranga, If the Gita Press publication is of the Sanskrit only, maybe you should try to procure one of the translations in addition to it. I think you must be knowing Tamil - perhaps you should look for it and try to photocopy it? Then you could translate the text for the rest of us. One thing that bothers me. Well, two things really. First, if the text is indeed authored by Jaimini, how would he know about Lord Chaitanya when he isn't even a Vaishnava? The second thing is the edition of the text. Are we sure there is only one recension of the Jaimini Bharata in circulation? I wonder if Locana das Thakur was quotting from a different recension. Because it's usually my experience that explicit Chaitanya references are found only in Gaudiya recensions. - K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 10, 2003 Report Share Posted September 10, 2003 On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, krishna_susarla wrote: > First, if the > text is indeed authored by Jaimini, how would he know about Lord > Chaitanya when he isn't even a Vaishnava? I had a similar question, since Jaimini's position is a bit puzzling. On one hand, he is rejected as "bewildered" by the Srimad-bhagavatam (6.3.25), while on the other hand, he is the original speaker of the Brhad-bhagavtamrta! I've consulted learned senior godbrothers about this, and they've uniformly replied that Jaimini was at first a karmi (in the strict sense of that term), then later on he became a pure devotee. There are many others who were like this too. > edition of the text. Are we sure there is only one recension of the > Jaimini Bharata in circulation? I wonder if Locana das Thakur was > quotting from a different recension. Because it's usually my > experience that explicit Chaitanya references are found only in > Gaudiya recensions. I've never heard of the Jaimini-bharata. Is it supposed to be a relatively obscure version of the Mahabharata? MDd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 11, 2003 Report Share Posted September 11, 2003 >I've never heard of the Jaimini-bharata. Is it supposed to be a relatively obscure version >of the Mahabharata? Dear Prabhu, Its just that when I was reading Chaitanya Mangala, I came across this name. When I searched, I came to know that there is indeed a book of this name attributed to Jaimini. This book is supposed to contain a history of the clan called dalbyas, who seemed to have helped the Kurus . I really do not know whether the one present now does contain anything about Mahaprabhu or what its contents are. Its with Hindi translation. I'm awaiting a copy from Gita Press Gorakhpur & expect to get it in 2 weeks time. Hare Krishna! Narasimhan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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