Details

Other Title:

Yogasūtra

Subjects:

Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.
Yoga.
Sankhya.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is part of a larger work, containing part of pāda (section) 1 and pādas 2-4 of the 4 pādas of the Yogasūtra, a Hindu philosophical work on the Yoga and Sāṃkhya schools of philosophy attributed to the (likely) 4th century A.D. author Patañjali. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 64r); alternate title supplied by cataloger.
Written in 9-12 lines per leaf.
52 leaves foliated 13-64, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīpātaṃjale yogaśāstre sāṃkhya eva ca ne kaivalyapādaścaturthaḥ saṃpūrṇaḥ // (f. 64r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black 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 3588 (UP 1926).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1926.

OCLC:

950470988