Details

Standardized Title:

Sāṅkhyasūtra

Subjects:

Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.
Sankhya.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a Hindu philosophical treatise on the principles of Sāṃkhya philosophy attributed to Kapila.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 21v).
Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
21 leaves foliated 1-21, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti tatvasamāsākhyasāṃkhyasūtravṛttiḥ samāptā // (f. 21v).
Dated saṃvat 1938 and śaka 1803 (1881) (f. 21v).
Scribe is Dāmodara Śāstri Sahasrabuddha (f. 1r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; 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 3578 (UP 1929).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1929.

Contributor:

Sahasrabuddha, Dāmodara Śāstri, scribe.

OCLC:

950471261