Vākyavṛtti, 1877
वाक्यवृत्ति, १८७७
- Description
- Manuscript was used for contemplation and study and is a commentary from the Vedanta school on a philosophical treatise by Śaṅkarācārya on Great sayings (mahāvākya), such as, you are that (tat tvam asi) and others. Manuscript is given the title of the treatise, but appears to be an unidentified commentary on that text.
- Creator
- Ḍekre, Anantarāma (scribe)
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- commentaries
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit
- Date
- 1877
- Language
- Sanskrit
- Subject
- Śaṅkarācārya. Vākyavr̥tti
- Vedanta
- Indian philosophy
- Hindu philosophy
- Collection
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts
- Extent
- 1 item (31 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 24 cm
- Notes
- Title from colophon (f. 31v).
- Written in 7 lines per leaf.
- 31 leaves foliated 1-31, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti vākyavṛttiḥ samāptaḥ śake 1799 // bhādrapadavadya 4 saumyavāsare tad dinedaṃ pustakaṃ ḍekre ity upanāmaka anaṃtarāmena likhitaṃ // śrī āryādurgārpaṇam astu // śrīsāṃba // (f. 31v).
- Scribe is Anantarāma Ḍekre (f. 31v).
- Dated śaka 1799 bhādrapadavadya 4 (Wednesday, September 26, 1877) (f. 31v).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p34c35
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 558
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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