Digital Ebook (PDF) — Rare 1927 Edition, Printed at the Nirnaya Sagar Press, Bombay
Text / Tradition: Durgā Stotrāvalī (a collection of devotional Sanskrit stotras of the Kashmiri tradition) | Prepared and corrected by Pandit Keshava Bhatt Jyotirvid, Pathashala Teacher, Nonar, Srinagar, Kashmir | Printed by Ramchandra Yesu Shedge, Nirnaya Sagar Press, 26–28 Kolbhat Lane, Bombay | Saptarshi Samvat 5003, Vikram Samvat 1984, 1927 CE
Key Features
The Durga Stotravali is a treasured collection of Sanskrit hymns prepared for daily devotion, compiled and carefully corrected by Pandit Keshava Bhatt Jyotirvid, a scholar and astrologer of Srinagar, Kashmir. Described on its title page as a book “useful for the religious-minded and the virtuous,” it was created so that devoted householders could have a reliable and well-edited text of the sacred stotras for their worship and recitation.
The book is deeply rooted in the living devotional culture of Kashmir. Its title page is dated in the Saptarshi Samvat, the traditional calendar era of the Kashmiri Pandits, alongside the Vikram and Christian years, a detail that marks it as a genuine product of the Kashmiri tradition of worship. Pandit Keshava Bhatt, who taught at a pathashala in Nonar near Srinagar, belonged to a learned lineage that preserved and transmitted the ritual and devotional texts of the community, and this edition reflects that heritage of careful scholarship.
As is traditional, the collection opens with the Ganesha Stotram, invoking the remover of obstacles with a series of beautiful meditation verses describing his radiant form, his weapons and gestures, and his grace as the bestower of success. From this auspicious beginning the book unfolds its sequence of hymns centred on the worship of Durga, the Divine Mother, offering the devotee a complete companion for daily prayer and festival observance.
The edition was printed in 1927 at the renowned Nirnaya Sagar Press of Bombay, famed for the accuracy and elegance of its Sanskrit typography. It was published, as its title page declares, purely for the benefit of others, at a modest price of eight annas, so that the hymns might reach as many worshippers as possible.
For devotees of the Divine Mother, members and students of the Kashmiri Pandit tradition, those who recite Sanskrit stotras in their daily worship, and collectors of rare early Nirnaya Sagar editions, the Durga Stotravali is a precious devotional heirloom, presented here in its original Sanskrit text.
Ebook Details
Format: PDF (digital download)
Language: Sanskrit
Text: Durgā Stotrāvalī (collection of devotional Sanskrit hymns)
Compiler / Editor: Pandit Keshava Bhatt Jyotirvid, Pathashala Teacher, Nonar, Srinagar, Kashmir
Original Publication: Nirnaya Sagar Press, Bombay; printed by Ramchandra Yesu Shedge. Saptarshi Samvat 5003, Vikram Samvat 1984, 1927 CE
Content: The complete Sanskrit stotra collection, faithfully reproduced from the rare 1927 edition
Ideal For: Devotees of Durga and the Divine Mother, followers of the Kashmiri Pandit tradition, those who recite Sanskrit stotras in daily worship, students of Shakta devotional literature, and collectors of rare Nirnaya Sagar Press editions
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