Details

Standardized Title:

Yogavāsiṣṭha. Selections

Other Title:

Bṛhadyogavāsiṣṭhasthitiprakaraṇa

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 Vāsiṣṭhatātyaryaprakāśa (also called Vāsiṣṭhamahārāmāyaṇatātparyaprakāśa), runs horizontally above and below the root text.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 147r); alternative title Bṛhadyogavāsiṣṭhasthitiprakaraṇa from title page (f. 1r); title of commentary from colophon (f. 147r).
Written in 14-19 lines per leaf.
148 leaves foliated 1-148, upper left and lower right verso.
Dated śaka 1763 (1841) (f. 147r).
Colophon: ity ārṣe mahārāmāyaṇe devadūtokte śatasāhastryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vāsiṣṭhabrahmabodhe vālmīkīye sthitiprakaraṇe dviṣaṣṭhitamaḥ sargaḥ 62 // (f. 147r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with triple red line.
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 2319).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2319.

Contains:

Ānandabodhendrasarasvatī. Vāsiṣṭhamahārāmāyaṇatātparyaprakāśa.

OCLC:

961831473