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Saṃkṣepaśārīraka. Adhyāya 1, circa 1700-1850.
संक्षेपशारीरक अध्याय १,
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Sarvajñātman.
- Standardized Title:
- Saṅkṣepaśārīraka. Selections.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Bādarāyaṇa. Brahmasūtra.
- Bādarāyaṇa.
- Śaṅkarācārya. Śārīrakamīmāṃsābhāṣya.
- Śaṅkarācārya.
- Advaita.
- Vedanta.
- Hindu philosophy.
- Philosophy, Indic.
- Genre:
- poems
- commentaries
- treatises
- watermarks
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (168 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 31 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1004
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is used for contemplation, study and recitation and is a reworking, in verse, of Śaṅkarācārya's foundational philosophical commentary on the Brahmāsūtras, known as the Śārīrakamīmāṃsābhāṣya, one of the cornerstones of the Hindu philosophical system known as Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta. Manuscript contains the first section of the large work as well as including a running commentary, horizontally above and below the main text, called the Saṃkṣepaśārīrakasārasaṃgraha by Madhusūdana Sarasvatī.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 168v).
- Written in 8-17 lines per leaf.
- 168 leaves foliated 1-168, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrīdeveśvarapūjapādaśiṣyasarvajñātmamahāmuneḥ kṛtau śārīrakamīmāṃsābhāṣyaprakaraṇavārttikasaṃkṣepaśārīrake prathamo 'dhyāyaḥ 1 (f. 168v).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
- Machine-made paper with watermarks through half the folios of the manuscript; the watermark is a crest with a crown and some wording as well as a crest with some vegetation (?) and an animal of some kind.
- Manuscript was formerly part of a larger manuscript along with Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1005, Item 1006, and Item 1007.
- 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 4182 (UP 1004).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1004
- OCLC:
- 895003518
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