Siddhāntabindu, 1860.
सिद्धान्तबिन्दु

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Madhusūdana Sarasvatī.

Contributor:

Bhanu, Swami, scribe.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Śaṅkarācārya. Daśaslokī.

Śaṅkarācārya.

Bhakti.

Brahman.

Advaita.

Vedanta.

Hindu philosophy.

Philosophy, Indic.

Genre:

treatises

commentaries

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (18 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 35 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1168

Place of Publication:

1860.

१८६०.

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 with emphasis on the devotional path (bhakti) towards knowledge of the absolute or brahman without qualities (nirguṇa brahman).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 18r).

Written in 11 lines per leaf.

18 leaves foliated 1-18, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīmadhusūdanarasvatIviracitaḥ siddhāṃtaviṃduḥ samāpto 'yaṃ kṛṣṇārpaṇo 'stu // (f. 18r).

Scribe is Bhānu (Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1165, f. 4r).

Dated saṃvat 1917 and śaka 1782 (1860) based on Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1169 (f. 100r), written by the same scribe.

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.

Manuscript written by the same scribe as Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1160, Item 1161, Item 1164, Item 1165, Item 1166, Item 1167, Item 1169, and Item 1172.

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 1779 (UP 1168).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1168

OCLC:

903652147