Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Vedāntasāraṭīkā
वेदान्तसारटीका

Authors

• Nr̥siṃhāśrama

Other related names

• Yajñeśvarabhaṭṭa, former owner

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1057
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963334353503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/900194102
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6333435

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is an extensive commentary (tīkā) on the short philosophical treatise called the Vedāntasāra by Sadānanda Yogīndra, considered a summary or essence (sāra) of Vedic knowledge from a Vedānta perspective and presented as a discourse between the Hindu deities Śiva and Pārvatī. Manuscript also contains Sadānanda Yogīndra's root text running with two or three lines of text between the elaborate commentary.

Notes

• Title from end page (f. 52r).
   
• Written in 9-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 52 leaves foliated 1-52, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with triple red line.
   
• Includes single wooden board cover (broken) with importer stickers; one bears the name: A. C. Gumpert, Bombay, Sole Importer; the other two have: The Celebrated Shudehill Match, J. Fryer Manchester along with a crest of a lion; a University of Pennsylvania Library ink stamp was put on every sticker when procured.
   

Extent

1 item (52 leaves) : 13 x 28 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti vedāṃtasārarṭīkāsametasamāptaḥ // (f. 52v).

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Yajñeśvarabhaṭṭa (f. 1r).
   

Subjects topical

• Vedanta
• Advaita
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Parvati (Hindu deity)

Genres

• Dialogues
• Treatises
• Commentaries
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1057: Vedāntasāraṭīkā are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode