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Title

Yogasūtrabhāṣya
योगसूत्रभाष्य

Authors

• Patañjali

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1923
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9969774413503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/949882337
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6977441

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is a Hindu philosophical work on the Yoga and Sāṃkhya schools of philosophy attributed to the (likely) 4th century A.D. author Patañjali, consisting of his Yogasūtra treatise and his commentary (Bhāṣya) on the treatise, collectively referred to as the Patañjaliyogaśāstra.

Notes

• Title from abbreviations in margins; alternate title Patañjaliyogaśāstra supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 20-26 lines per leaf.
   
• 57 leaves foliated 1-57, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   

Extent

1 item (57 leaves) : 13 x 29 cm

Support

Paper

Subjects topical

• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic
• Yoga
• Sankhya

Genres

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

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