Siddhasiddhāntapaddhati, circa 1700-1850.
सिद्धसिद्धान्तपद्धति

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Gorakhanātha

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Hatha yoga.

Nātha sect.

Yoga.

Hindu philosophy.

Śaivism.

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

treatises

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 31 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1925

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Eleventh- or twelfth-century A.D. developer of Haṭha yoga and the Nātha school of Śaiva philosophy. Some older, traditional scholarship had placed him in eighth century A.D.

Summary:

Manuscript is a kind of manual (paddhati) and treatises, a small section of a larger work dealing with aspects of Haṭha yoga and the Nātha school of Śaiva philosophy. Manuscript lacks an end.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r).

Written in 16 lines per leaf.

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

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

European stock of paper with mater marks, having a crest and crown in the center.

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 3584 (UP 1925).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1925

OCLC:

821067470