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Title

Siddhāntabindu
सिद्धान्तबिन्दु

Authors

• Madhusūdana Sarasvatī

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1123
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963462683503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/902676113
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6346268

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise and commentary on Śaṅkarācārya's Daśaslokī, written from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta branch of philosophy with emphasis on the devotional path (bhakti) towards knowledge of the absolute or brahman without qualities (nirguṇa brahman).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 41v).
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 41 leaves foliated 1-41, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red through the first part of the manuscript; vertical margins marked with double black lines.
   
• Watermarks bearing the date of 1836 and a crest of a seated Britannia throughout the manuscript.
   

Extent

1 item (41 leaves) : 11 x 20 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryavaryaviśveśvarasarasvatīpūjyapādaśiṣyaśrīmadhusūdanasarasvatīviracitaḥ siddhāṃtabi[ṃ]duḥ // (41 r).

Subjects topical

• Bhakti
• Brahman
• Advaita
• Vedanta
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

• Commentaries
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--17th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--17th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

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