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Title

Mokṣopāya.
मोक्षोपाय

Authors

• Ānandabodhendrasarasvatī

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2317
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9972316153503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/961831430
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7231615

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

A treatise on Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta philosophy attributed to the ancient sage Vālmīki but composed by an unknown medieval author. Framed within the mythological world of the epic Rāmāyaṇa, the text is presented as a dialogue between the sage Vāsiṣṭha and the epic hero Rāma. Addresses the concept of dissolution (upaśama). It names itself after an earlier Kashmiri work, Mokṣopāya, but is a conflated, version of the Yogavāsiṣṭha. A commentary by Ānandabodhendra Sarasvatī, the Vāsiṣṭhamahārāmāyaṇatātparyaprakāśa, runs horizontally above and below the root text.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 308r); alternate title Bṛhadyogavāsiṣṭa from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 11-17 lines per leaf.
   
• 308 leaves foliated 1-308, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1764 (1842) (f. 308r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant characters, words, and phrases highlighted in red.
   
• Two wooden boards with beveled edges support the manuscript.
   
• Watermarks of Britannia; the name W. & J. Harris, Turkey Mill, 1839; and J. & J. Town, Turkey Mill, 1840.
   

Extent

1 item (308 leaves) : 21 x 33 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīmahārāmāyaṇe śatasahasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ bālakāṃḍe vāsiṣṭe mokṣopāye upaśamaprakaraṇe samadarśanaṃ nāmatrinavatisargaḥ 93 (f. 308r).

Subjects topical

• Advaita
• Vedanta
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

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

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