Details

Subjects:

Patañjali. Sāṃkhyapravacana.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.
Sankhya.
Yoga.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Watermarks.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

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