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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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