MS. Sansk. d. 151

MSS. Sansk. d.

NOTE: This record has yet to be fully checked.

Aṣṭāvakra, with Viśveśvara’s commentary, 18th cent.?

The Aṣṭāvakra, with the commentary of Viśveśvara, a compendium of Vedāntic philosophy as in the Purāṇas

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: [1v] oṃ śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ | saccidānandam advaitaṃ sarvādhiṣṭānam uttamaṃ | natvaṣṭāvakrasūktasya dīpikā tanyate parā ǁ

Explicit: [54] iti śrīmadviśveśvaraviracitāyām Aṣṭāvakraṭīkāyāṃ saṃkhyākramādivyākhyāna samāptaṃ |

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: iii + 54 + i

Dimensions (binding): 23.5 × 17.8 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: 18th cent.?

probably about the middle of the 18th century.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 226).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1303, p. 194

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. 1303, p. 194

Funding of Cataloguing

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