Upaśamaprakaraṇa, after 1840.
उपशमप्रकरण

Format:

Manuscript

Standardized Title:

Mokṣopāya. Selections.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Advaita.

Hindu philosophy.

Philosophy, Indic.

Genre:

commentaries

treatises

watermarks

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (62 leaves) : paper ; 21 x 33 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2321

Place of Publication:

after 1840.

after १८४०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

A treatise on Advaita (non-dualism) philosophy that is distinct from Vedānta. Addresses the concept of dissolution (upaśama). It is a Kashmiri work and part of the Mokṣopāya. It became the basis of the Yogavāsiṣṭha, a work of Vedānta philosophy. An unidentified commentary runs horizontally above and below the root text. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes:

Title from internal colophon (f. 3v).

Written in 12-15 lines per leaf.

62 leaves foliated 1-62, upper left and lower right verso.

Internal colophon: iti śrīmokṣopāyeṣūpaśamaprakaraṇe prathamānhikavarṇanaḥ sargaḥ sargaḥ 1 (f. 3v).

Dated after 1840 based on watermark.

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

Watermarks of Britannia; the name W. & J. Harris, Turkey Mill, 1839; and J. & J. Town, Turkey Mill, 1840.

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 4225 (UP 2321).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2321.

OCLC:

961831874