Śataślokī, circa 1700-1850.
शतश्लोकी

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Śaṅkarācārya, attributed name.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Advaita.

Vedanta.

Hindu philosophy.

Philosophy, Indic.

Genre:

poems

treatises

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (17 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 23 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1275

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Summary of Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta doctrine, in verse. The work is supposed to have over 100 verses according to the title, but this work ends at verse 88. The work is often attributed to the Advaitan sage Śaṅkarācārya, though possibly written by one of his followers.

Notes:

Title from title abbreviations in margins, upper left and right verso.

Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.

17 leaves foliated 1-17, upper left and lower right verso.

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins, some in a second scribal hand; 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 5337 (UP 1275).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1275

OCLC:

905605345