Vākyavṛttiprakaraṇa, circa 1700-1850.
वाक्यवृत्तिप्रकरण

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Śaṅkarācārya

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Hindu mantras.

Advaita.

Vedanta.

Hindu philosophy.

Philosophy, Indic.

Genre:

commentaries

treatises

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 24 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1273

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for contemplation and study and is a short Hindu philosophical treatise and commentary (prakaraṇa) on the Great saying (mahāvākya), particularly the phrase, You are that (tat tvam asi), often functioning as a mantra and derived from late Vedic upaniṣads. The work is written from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedanta school of philosophy.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2v).

Written in 15-17 lines per leaf.

2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrīmacchaṃkarācāryaviracitaṃ vākyavṛttiprakaraṇaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // (f. 2v).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; colophon highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double red line.

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 4138 (UP 1273).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1273

OCLC:

905547645