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Title

Māṇḍūkyabhāṣya
माण्डूक्यभाष्य

Authors

• Śaṅkarācārya

Other related names

• Govinda Brahma, scribe

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 852
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962344193503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/883243754
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6234419

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise and commentary on an early work called the Sāṃkhya kārikā, and considered an early work of the Vedānta school of philosophy though from a point of view of monism rather than non-dualism.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Gauḍapādabhāṣya supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 8-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 79 leaves foliated 1-78, [i], upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1859 (1802) (f. 78r).
   
• Scribe is Govinda Brahma who wrote the work in the city of Varāṇasī (Kāśī) (f. 78r); written with the same scribal hand as Ms. Coll. 390, Item 840, and is a companion to that work.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   

Extent

1 item (79 leaves) : 12 x 27 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīgoviṃdabhagavatpūjyapādaśiṣyasya śrīśaṃkarabhagavataḥ kṛtāvāgamaśāstravivaraṇe ajātaśāṃkyākhyaṃ caturdhaprakaraṇaṃ saṃ[pūrṇam] // (f. 78r).

Subjects topical

• Vedanta
• Monism
• Sankhya
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

• Commentaries
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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