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Vedāntasāra, 1799.
वेदान्तसार
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1074
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Sadānanda Yogīndra.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, Indic.
- Hindu philosophy.
- Advaita--Early works to 1800.
- Advaita.
- Vedanta--Early works to 1800.
- Vedanta.
- Hindu philosophy--Early works to 1800.
- Philosophy, Indic--Early works to 1800.
- Śiva (Hindu deity)--Early works to 1800.
- Śiva.
- SÌiva (Hindu deity).
- Parvati (Hindu deity)--Early works to 1800.
- Parvati.
- Parvati (Hindu deity).
- Genre:
- treatises
- dialogues
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (11 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 29 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1074
- Place of Publication:
- 1799.
- १७९९.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Biography/History:
- 15th-century Sanskrit philosopher, referred to as Sadānanda in the manuscript (f. 11v).
- Summary:
- Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is a short philosophical treatise considered a summary or essence (sāra) of Vedic knowledge from an Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta perspective. Presented as a discourse between the Hindu deities Śiva and Pārvatī.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 11v).
- Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
- 11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrīmatparivrājakācāryaviracito sadānaṃdaviracito vedāṃtasāraḥ samāptaḥ // śrīhanumallekṣmaṇasametaḥ śrīsītārāmacaṃdraḥ jñānadātāprīyatāṃ // śake 1721 siddhā[??] saṃvatsare māghaśuddhramatipadiravivāsare sahasrabudhyupāvhakṛṣṇātmajavināyakenalikhitaṃ svāthaṃ parārthaṃ ca // śubhaṃbhūyāllekhakādhyetroḥ // (f. 11v).
- Scribe is Vināyaka, son of Kṛṣṇa (f. 11v).
- Dated śaka 1721 (1799) (f. 11v).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; corrections and additions in margins, some in a second scribal hand.
- 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 4173 (UP 1074).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1074
- OCLC:
- 900084132
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