Brahmanāmāvalīstotra, circa 1700-1850.
ब्रह्मनामावलीस्तोत्र

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Śaṅkarācārya, attributed name.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Brahman.

Mokṣa.

Hindu philosophy.

Genre:

hymns

prayers (compositions)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 16 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2543

Other Title:

Brahmanāmāvalīmālā.

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Renowned eighth-century Vedanta philosophical commentator is often arbitrarily assigned as the author of collections of short, poetical works, such as this hymn of praise (stotra) in manuscript colophons. Most scholars do not believe that such hymns were actually written by this author.

Summary:

Small manuscript to be used in private or public meditation or prayer is a hymn in praise of the highest philosophical principal, known as the Brahman, which is also referred to as saccitānanda ("existence, consciousness, and bliss") in the text. Attaining knowledge of this principal (brahmajñāna) is said to lead to release (mokṣa) from the cycle of life and death.

Notes:

Title colophon (f. 2v); alternate title Brahmanāmāvalīmālā from incipit (f. 1r).

Written in 11-9 lines per leaf.

2 leaves foliated 1, [2], upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīma[d]chaṃkarācāryaviracitau brahmanāmāval[ī]stotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // śrīsaccidānaṃdārpaṇam astu // (f. 2v).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.

Non-Latin script record.

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 1799 (UP 2543).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2543

OCLC:

802830624