Details

Standardized Title:

Yogavāsiṣṭha. Selections

Other Title:

Bṛhadyogavāsiṣṭa

Subjects:

Advaita.
Vedanta.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
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. Addresses the concept of dissolution (upaśama). It names itself after an earlier Kashmiri work, Mokṣopāya, but is a conflated, version of the Yogavāsiṣṭha. A commentary by Ānandabodhendra Sarasvatī, the Vāsiṣṭhamahārāmāyaṇatātparyaprakāśa, runs horizontally above and below the root text.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 308r); alternate title Bṛhadyogavāsiṣṭa from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 11-17 lines per leaf.
308 leaves foliated 1-308, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmahārāmāyaṇe śatasahasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ bālakāṃḍe vāsiṣṭe mokṣopāye upaśamaprakaraṇe samadarśanaṃ nāmatrinavatisargaḥ 93 (f. 308r).
Dated śaka 1764 (1842) (f. 308r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant characters, words, and phrases highlighted in red.
Two wooden boards with beveled edges support the manuscript.
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 2317).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2317.

Contains:

Ānandabodhendrasarasvatī. Vāsiṣṭhamahārāmāyaṇatātparyaprakāśa.

OCLC:

961831430