Details

Standardized Title:

Yogavāsiṣṭha. Selections

Other Title:

Yogavāsiṣṭhamumukṣaprakaraṇa

Subjects:

Advaita.
Vedanta.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.
Hindu mythology.
Rāma (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Dialogues.
Watermarks.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

A treatise on Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta philosophy attributed to the ancient sage Vālmīki but composed by an unknown medieval author. Framed within the mythological world of the epic Rāmāyaṇa, the text is presented as a dialogue between the sage Vāsiṣṭha and the epic hero Rāma. A commentary by Ānandabodhendra Sarasvatī, the Vāsiṣṭhatātyaryārthaprakāśa (also called Vāsiṣṭhamahārāmāyaṇatātparyaprakāśa), runs horizontally above and below the root text.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 71r); alternate title Yogavāsiṣṭhamumukṣaprakaraṇa from title page (f. 1r); title of commentary from colophon (f. 71r).
Written in 11-17 lines per leaf.
71 leaves foliated 1-71, upper left and lower right verso.
Dated after 1840 based on watermark.
Colophon: ity ārṣe śrīrāmāyaṇe devadūto to dvātriṃśatsahasrāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vāsiṣṭhe vālmīkiye mokṣopāyamumukṣuvyavahāraprakaraṇe sadācāranirūpaṇaṃ nāmaviṃśatimasargaḥ // 20 // (f. 71v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant words and phrases highlighted in red.
Watermarks of Britannia; the name W. & J. Harris, Turkey Mill, 1839; and J. & J. Town, Turkey Mill, 1840.

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 4237 (UP 2318).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2318.

Contains:

Ānandabodhendrasarasvatī. Vāsiṣṭhamahārāmāyaṇatātparyaprakāśa.

OCLC:

961831449