Tattvārthacintāmaṇi, [18--].

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Bālakṛṣṇa Vedavṛkṣa.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Hindu astrology.

Tantrism.

Genre:

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (7 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 27 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 652

Other Title:

Maṇiprakāśa

Place of Publication:

[18--].

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī).

Notes:

Tattvārthacintāmaṇi of Bālakṛṣṇa Vedavṛkṣa, with the commentary Maṇiprakāśa or Tattvārthacintāmaṇivṛttavṛttimaṇiprakāśa. Titles from f. 1v, 7r; author listed f. 7r (colophon to text).

The author, Bālakṛṣṇa Vedavṛkṣa, lived 1796-1830 (Pingree).

Text written 1-5 lines per leaf; commentary written 6-16 lines per leaf.

Text begins: śrīgaṇeśo jayati śrīmaddevagurūn praṇamya bahuśogranthān vidhāyādhunā nā[?] keralipañcapakṣiviṣayān vijñāya tatvārthadān d[ai]vajñatvakara[---]ikālakalanaṁ tatvārthacintāmaṇiṁ kurvve[?] kāmaduhaśca pañcakhacarair vvarṇasvarād īśvaraiḥ (verse 1).

Commentary begins: ṣayoyeṣu tān vijñāya kim bhūvān tatvārthadān vāstavaprayojanabodhakān atra bahutvena tatsamudāyasya tatvārthadātṛtvam bodhitaṁ tenāsya tvekasyaiveti dhunvate[?] kim bhutaṁ tatvārthacintāmaṇiṁ daivatvakaraṁ daivam devacaritaṁ bhāgyaṁ bā jānātīti.

Colophon of text (f. 7r): iti śrīmatpārvatavedavṛkṣavālakṛṣṇaviracitaḥ keralapañcapakṣisvaravicār[e] tatvārthacintāmaṇināmāgranthaḥ samāptaḥ.

Colophon of commentary: iti śrīmadvedavṛkṣavālakṛṣṇaviracitaḥ svakṛtatatvārthacintāmaṇivṛttavṛttimaṇiprakāśaḥ sampūrṇaḥ.

Cited in:

Listed in H.I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 4394 (UP 652).

Listed in Kunhan Raja, ed., New Catalogus Catalogorum, vol. 8 (Madras, India: University of Madras, 1949), p. 76.

Listed in David Pingree, Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit, series A, vol. 5 (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1994), p. 233.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 652

OCLC:

399778537