Īśāvāsyabhāṣya, circa 1700-1850.
इशावास्यभाष्य

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Śaṅkarācārya.

Standardized Title:

Īśopaniṣadbhāṣya

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Upanishads. Īśopaniṣad.

Upanishads.

Advaita.

Vedanta.

Hindu mantras.

Hindu gods.

Hindu philosophy.

Philosophy, Indic.

Genre:

treatises

poems

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (18 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 25 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 883

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and recitation and is a Hindu philosophical treatise and commentary from the perspective of Advaita Vedānta school of philosophy. The manuscript is a commentary on a late Vedic work, the Īśopaniṣad, and is also a poem, employing Hindu mantras and exploring the meaning and nature of the highest disembodied Lord, referred to as Īśvara; there is an unidentified super-commentary, running horizontally, above and below the main text.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).

Written in 11-14 lines per leaf.

18 leaves foliated 1-18, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrīmadgoviṃdabhagavatpūjyapādaśiṣyeṇa śrīśaṃkarācāryeṇa kṛtam īśāvāsyabhāṣyaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // (f. 18r).

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

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 471 (UP 883).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 883.

OCLC:

895058204