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MS. Sansk. d. 152

MSS. Sansk. d.

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Śaṅkarācārya’s Upadeśasāhasrī, with Mokṣasā-dhanopadeśavidhi, A. D. 1636.

Contents

The Upadeśasāhasrī of Śaṅkarācārya (circa a. d. 788), a famous Vedāntic treatise.

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: [1v] caitanyaṃ sarvagaṃ sarvaṃ sarvabhūtaguhāśayaṃ | yat sarvaviṣayātītaṃ tasmai sarvavide namaḥ ǁ
Explicit: [21] ātmanaś cādvayatvaviṣayāṃ dvayasyāsatvārthāṃ ca sarvāṇy upaniṣadvākyāni vistarataḥ samīkṣitavyāni samīkṣitavyāni | cha | iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrīgovindabhagavatpādapūjyaśiṣyasya Śaṃkarabhagavataḥ kṛtiḥ Sakalopaniṣatsāra Upadeśasāhasrī samāptā |

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: iii + 21 + i
Dimensions (binding): 30.2 × 14.6 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

f. 21: śrīmadvārāṇasīkṣetre Viśveśacaraṇāntike svastiśrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrīrāma-bhadrāśramabhagavatpādapūjyaśiṣyeṇa Janārdanaśrameṇa svasvāmino ’rthaṃ granthaḥ svahastena likhitaḥ samāptaḥ |

History

Origin: A. D. 1636.

f. 21: saṃvat 1693 pārthivasaṃvatsare śake 1558 ⟨1636⟩ dhātāsaṃvatsaramārgaśīrṣaśuddha-ṣaṣṭībudhavāsare dhaniṣṭhānakṣatraśubhayoge | The year is dated by both cycles.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 227).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1280, pp. 186-187

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. 1280, pp. 186-187

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