Details

Other Title:

Spandanirṇaya

Subjects:

Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.
Śaivism.
Shaktism.
Tantrism.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Beginning of a Kashmiri Śaiva Tantra philosophical commentarial work, likely the Spandanirṇaya by Kṣemarāja (disciple of Abhinavagupta), on the concept of internal vibrations (spanda) of the heart and the manifestation of divine powers (śakti). Manuscript lacks an ending.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r); alternate title Spandanirṇaya supplied by cataloger.
Written in 12 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, 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 3605 (UP 1935).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1935.

OCLC:

950472209