Dr̥gdr̥śyaviveka ṭīkā, circa 1700-1850.
दृग्दृश्यविवेक टीका

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Ramacandra Tīrtha.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Śaṅkarācārya. Vākyasudhā.

Śaṅkarācārya.

Self (Philosophy).

Advaita.

Vedanta.

Hindu philosophy.

Philosophy, Indic.

Genre:

commentaries

treatises

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (40 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 20 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1141

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 commentary (tīkā) on Śaṅkarācārya's Vākyasudhā (also known as Dr̥gdr̥śyaviveka), which is a short philosophical synopsis highlighting Śaṅkarācārya's main teachings, such as his ideas about perception of the Self (ātman) and its relationship to consciousness and the manifestation of emotions, desires and the like. Śaṅkarācārya's root text is interspersed throughout the commentary and is highlighted in red to distinguish it from the main commentary.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 40v).

Written in 8 lines per leaf.

40 leaves foliated 1-40, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrImacchaṃkarācāryakṛtadṛgdṛśyaprkaraṇo pari śrīrāmacaṃdratīrthaviracitāṭīkāsamāptaṃ // śrī saccidānaṃdārpaṇam astu // (f. 40v).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; phrases of root text and colophon highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double red 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 4119 (UP 1141).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1141

OCLC:

898564233