Details

Subjects:

Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.
Yoga.
Sankhya.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a philosophical work on Yoga and Sāṃkhya principles attributed to the (likely) 4th century A.D. author Patañjali and consists of his commentary (Bhāṣya) on his Yogasūtra as well as a super commentary by Vācaspatimiśra. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes:

Title from abbreviations in margins; alternate title Yogabhāṣya from title page (f. 1r); title of super commentary Yogabhāṣyaṭīkā from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 7-13 lines per leaf.
38 leaves foliated 1-33, 76-77, 81-83, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

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 3590 (UP 1924).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1924.

Contains:

Vācaspatimiśra, 1420-1490. Yogabhāṣyaṭīkā.

OCLC:

949882648