Details

Subjects:

Gauḍapāda Ācārya. Gauḍapādakārikā.
Vedanta.
Monism.
Sankhya.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise and commentary on an early work called the Sāṃkhya kārikā, and considered an early work of the Vedānta school of philosophy though from a point of view of monism rather than non-dualism.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Gauḍapādabhāṣya supplied by cataloger.
Written in 8-12 lines per leaf.
79 leaves foliated 1-78, [i], upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīgoviṃdabhagavatpūjyapādaśiṣyasya śrīśaṃkarabhagavataḥ kṛtāvāgamaśāstravivaraṇe ajātaśāṃkyākhyaṃ caturdhaprakaraṇaṃ saṃ[pūrṇam] // (f. 78r).
Dated saṃvat 1859 (1802) (f. 78r).
Scribe is Govinda Brahma who wrote the work in the city of Varāṇasī (Kāśī) (f. 78r); written with the same scribal hand as Ms. Coll. 390, Item 840, and is a companion to that work.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.

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 723 (UP 852, erroneously listed as UP 352).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 852

Contributor:

Govinda Brahma, scribe.

OCLC:

883243759