Details

Standardized Title:

Mokṣopāya. Selections.

Subjects:

Advaita.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

A treatise on Advaita (non-dualism) philosophy that is distinct from Vedānta. Addresses the concept of dissolution (upaśama). It is a Kashmiri work and part of the Mokṣopāya. It became the basis of the Yogavāsiṣṭha, a work of Vedānta philosophy. An unidentified commentary runs horizontally above and below the root text. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes:

Title from internal colophon (f. 3v).
Written in 12-15 lines per leaf.
62 leaves foliated 1-62, upper left and lower right verso.
Internal colophon: iti śrīmokṣopāyeṣūpaśamaprakaraṇe prathamānhikavarṇanaḥ sargaḥ sargaḥ 1 (f. 3v).
Dated after 1840 based on watermark.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
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 4225 (UP 2321).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2321.

OCLC:

961831874