Vākyavṛtti, 1700-1850.
वाक्यवृत्ति

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Śaṅkarācārya

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Hindu mantras.

Advaita.

Vedanta.

Indian philosophy.

Hindu philosophy.

Genre:

commentaries

treatises

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (8 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 14 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1134

Place of Publication:

1700-1850.

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Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript was used for contemplation and study and is a short Hindu philosophical treatise and commentary on the Great saying (mahāvākya), particularly the phrase, You are that (tat tvam asi), often functioning as a mantra and derived from late Vedic upaniṣads. The work is written from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedanta school of philosophy.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 8v).

Written in 9 lines per leaf.

8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīśaṃkarācāryviracitaṃ samāpta[ḥ] // śrīśaṃkarārpaṇam astu // (f. 8v).

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line.

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 4135 (UP 1134).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1134

OCLC:

898496308