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Siddhāntabindu, circa 1836.
सिद्धान्तबिन्दु
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1088
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Madhusūdana Sarasvatī.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Śaṅkarācārya. Daśaslokī.
- Śaṅkarācārya.
- Advaita.
- Vedanta.
- Hindu philosophy.
- Philosophy, Indic.
- Genre:
- commentaries
- treatises
- watermarks
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (37 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 33 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1088
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1836.
- १८३६.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise and commentary on Śaṅkarācārya's Daśaslokī, written from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta branch of philosophy.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 37r).
- Written in 7 lines per leaf.
- 37 leaves foliated 1-36, [i], upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrīmadhusūdanasarasvatīviracitaḥ siṃddhāṃtabiṃduḥ saṃpūrṇaḥ // śrīrāma // (37 r).
- Dated circa 1836 based on watermark date of 1836.
- Mistakes blacked out; additions and corrections added throughout, some in a second scribal hand; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
- Watermarks bearing the date of 1836 and a crest of a seated Britannia throughout the manuscript.
- 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 1777 (UP 1088).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1088
- OCLC:
- 900094834
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