MS. Sansk. c. 5

MSS. Sansk. c.

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Śaṅkara’s Aitareyopaniṣadbhāṣya with Commentary, A. D. 1819?

Summary of Contents: The Bahvṛcabrāhmaṇopaniṣadbhāṣya, or the commentary on the Aitareya Upaniṣad, by Śaṅkarācārya, with a super-commentary by Abhinava Nārāyaṇendra Sarasvatī a pupil of Jñānendra Sarasvatī (who was a pupil of Kaivalyendra Sarasvatī)

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ‖ ātmā vā idam ity ādinā kevalātmavidyāraṃbhasyāvasaraṃ vaktuṃ vṛttaṃ kīrttayato parisamāpṭam iti tatparisamāptiḥ kathaṃ gamyata ity āśaṃkya tatphalopasaṃhārād ity āha saiṣeti parāgatir iti paraṃ gaṃtavyaṃ prāptavyaṃ phalam ity arthaḥ upasaṃhāram eva vākyodāharaṇena darśayati etad iti | &c.

Explicit: [34] avatu vaktāram ity abhyāsodhyāyaparisamāptyarthaḥ dvitīyāraṇyakapari- samāptyarthaś ca iti śrīsaptamādhyāyasya dīpikā saṃpūrṇā |

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: i + 34 + i

Dimensions (binding): 33.3 × 14.6 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: A. D. 1819?

the MS. was written by the same hand as MS. Sansk. c. 9 which is dated saṃvat 1875 ⟨1819⟩.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1886 through Dr. G. Thibaut of Benares.

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 977, pp. 60-61

Availability

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Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

Moriz Winternitz and Arthur Berriedale Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1905), no. 977, pp. 60-61

Funding of Cataloguing

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