Siddhāntabindu, 1860.
सिद्धान्तबिन्दु

Format:

• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Madhusūdana Sarasvatī.

Contributor:

• Bhanu, Swami, scribe.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Śaṅkarācārya. Daśaslokī.
• 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