Sāṃkhyapravacanasūtravṛtti, circa 1700-1850.
सांख्यप्रवचनसूत्रवृत्ति

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Aniruddha, active 15th century.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Patañjali. Sāṃkhyapravacana.

Patañjali.

Hindu philosophy.

Philosophy, Indic.

Sankhya.

Yoga.

Genre:

commentaries

treatises

watermarks

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (45 leaves) : paper ; 14 x 30 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1918

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a treatise and commentary used for consultation and study dealing with an early branch of Hindu philosophy (both Yoga and Sāṃkhya). The work is a commentary on the Sāṃkhyapravacana by Patañjali, also author of the Yogasūtra.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 44v).

Written in 11-13 lines per leaf.

45 leaves foliated 1-45, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīkapilasāṃkhyapravacanasūtrapravṛttau ṣaṣṭho 'dhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 44v).

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

Watermark of a horse or pony and the initials of the name of a company ending with a G.

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 3570 (UP 1918).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1918.

OCLC:

949266434