Details

Other Title:

Tattvasamāsasāṃkhyasūtravṛtti

Subjects:

Kapila. Sāṅkhyasūtra.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.
Sankhya.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a Hindu philosophical treatise in the Sāṃkhya school of philosophy and is a commentary on the Sāṃkhyasūtra, a compendium of Sāṃkhya principles attributed to the author Kapila.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 10r); alternate title Tattvasamāsasāṃkhyasūtravṛtti supplied by cataloger.
Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti samāsasāṃkhyasūtravṛttiḥ samāptā // (f. 10r).
Dated saṃvat 1857 (1800) (f. 10r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
Scribe is Govinda Brahma who lived in the city of Kāśī (Vārāṇasī).

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 3579 (UP 1920).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1920.

Contributor:

Govinda Brahma, scribe.

OCLC:

949882033