MS. Sansk. c. 41

MSS. Sansk. c.

NOTE: This record has yet to be fully checked.

Ānandatīrtha’s Brahmasūtrānuvyākhyānyāyavivaraṇa and Bhagavadgītābhāṣya, 18th cent.?

Language(s): Sanskrit.

1. [fols. 1-9v]

the Brahmasūtrānuvyākhyānyāyavivaraṇa (also briefly called the Nyāyavivaraṇa or Anuvyākhyānyāyavivaraṇa), an epitome of the Brahmasūtras, by Ānandatīrtha.

Incipit: śrīvedavyāsāya namaḥ ǁ ǁ cetanācetanajaganniyaṃtre śeṣasaṃvide ǁ namo Nārāyaṇāyājaśarvaśakrādivadita ǁ 1 ǁ kṛtvā bhāṣyān - bhāṣye ’ham api ve--sa----ṣ— sya --- ū--- khyāsaṃnyāyavivṛttiṃ sphuṭaṃ ǁ 2 ǁ

Explicit: yasya triṇy uditāni vedavacane rūpāṇi divyāny alaṃ-baṭdarśanam ittham eva nihitaṃ devasya bhargo mahat ǁ vāyorāmat conayaṃ prathamakaṃ pṛkṣo dvitīyaṃ vapur matdhvo yat tu tṛtīyam etad amunā graṃthaḥ kṛtaḥ keśave ǁ namo jabhavabhūr yakṣapuraḥsarasurāśraya ǁ nārāyaṇāraṇaṃ mahyaṃ mā pate preyasāṃ priya ǁ cha iti śrīmadānaṃdatīrthabhagavatpādaviracite śrīmad-brahmasūtrānuvyākhyānyāyavivaraṇe caturthātdhyāyasya caturthaḥ pādaḥ cha śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu śrī ǁ

2. [fols. 14-33]

the Gītābhāṣya, or Bhagavadgītābhāṣya, a commentary on the Bhagavadgītā, by Ānandatīrtha. The beginning (four leaves) is missing.

Explicit: yas tu karmaphalatyāgīty abhidhīyata iti coktaṃ pūrṇādoṣaṃ mahāviṣṇor gītam āśrītya leśataḥ | nirūpaṇaṃ kṛtaṃ tena prīyatāṃ me sadā vibhuḥ ǁ cha ǁ iti śrīmadānaṃdalīrthabhagavat-pādācāryaviracite śrīmadbhagavadgītābhāṣye aṣṭādaśo ’tdhyāyaḥ ǁ

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: ii + 35

Dimensions (binding): 33.0 × 13.7 cm.

Condition

f. 1 is partly illegible.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: 18th cent.?

probably the first half of the 18th century.

Provenance and Acquisition

the book belonged to one Samātyasthāpati (?) Nariśiṃbhada, unless we read amātyasthapati ‘minister and governor’ in the statement on f. 33v: śrīmadgītābhāṣyaṃ samātyasthāpatinariśiṃbhadasyedaṃ pustakaṃ ǁ An entry on f. 1 (giving the title of the work) is signed with the initials ‘A. B.’ (Arthur Burnell?).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1290 (1, 2), pp. 189-190

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. 1290 (1, 2), pp. 189-190

Funding of Cataloguing

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