Brahmasūtra, circa 1700-1850.
ब्रह्मसूत्र

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Bādarāyaṇa.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Brahman.

Vedanta.

Hindu philosophy.

Philosophy, Indic.

Genre:

treatises

watermarks

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (14 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 22 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 887

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a treatise typically aligned with Vedānta (end of the Veda) and its associated philosophy. It is a foundational work that was highly influential on Hindu philosophy from the early medieval period and especially on later medieval thinkers and beyond. Particular concern is given to the nature of the highest reality or absolute, the brahman.

Notes:

Title from colophon abbreviations throughout.

Written in 9-12 lines per leaf.

14 leaves foliated 1-13, [i] upper left and lower right verso.

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

Watermarks on European style paper, image of three circles on top of one another, one bearing a moon, the second of what could be an elephant, the third is unclear; the circles have a Christian cross on top of them.

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 3926 (UP 887).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 887

OCLC:

884921160