Details

Standardized Title:

Brahmasūtra

Subjects:

Human body -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Vedanta.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Tables of contents.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise, which inquires into the nature of the embodied spirit (that is, questions about the embodiment of the spirit in human and universal forms). Considered an early work from the Vedānta school of philosophy and was commented heavily upon by medieval Indian philosophers. Final folio contains a table with contents possibly from another manuscript or for a larger manuscript for which this was the first part (f. 16v)

Notes:

Title from post-colophon note in second scribal hand (f. 16r).
Written in 12-13 lines per leaf.
16 leaves foliated 1-16, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti caturthādhyāya caturthapādaḥ samāptaḥ // oṃ tat sad brahmārpaṇam astu // brahmasūtrakṛte tasmai vedavyāsāyavedhase // jñānaśaktyavatārāya namo bhagavato hareḥ // 1 // (f. 16r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; 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 3927 (UP 1155).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1155

OCLC:

902677042