Sāṃkhyaśāstra bhāṣya, circa 1700-1850.
सांख्यशास्त्र भाष्य

Format:

• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Kapila, attributed name.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Hindu philosophy.
• Sankhya.
• Vedanta.

Genre:

• commentaries
• treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
• Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (56 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 18 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1919

Place of Publication:

• circa 1700-1850.
• १७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Traditionally credited as the founder of the Sāṃkhya school of Indian philosophy, which dates to the early centuries A.D.

Summary:

Manuscript is used for consultation or study and contains a commentary on a standard treatise of Sāṃkhya philosophy by the attributed founder of the school, Kapila, as well as a subcommentary by the well-known Vedānta philosopher, Gauḍapāda.

Notes:

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
• 56 leaves foliated 1-56, upper left and lower right verso.
• Colophon: iti śrīkapilākṛtāryābhāṣyaśrīgauḍapādācāryakṛtaṃ // samāptaṃ // śrīrastu // (f. 55r).
• Mistakes covered over in yellow and white or blacked out; numerous corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
• 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 3567 (UP 1919).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1919

OCLC:

821067430