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Title

Śārīrakamīmāṃsābhāṣya
शारीरकमीमांसाभाष्य

Authors

• Śaṅkarācārya

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 836
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962342763503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/883240779
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6234276

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise and commentary (bhāṣya) on the Śārīrakamīmāṃsā, better known as the Brahmasūtra, which inquires into the nature of the embodied spirit (that is, questions about the embodiment of the spirit in human and universal forms). Written from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dual) branch of the Vedānta school of philosophy.

Notes

• Hardwood boards for covers; a floral design is carved into the upper cover and there is writing on the lower cover.
   
• Title from colophon (f. 432r).
   
• Written in 11 lines per leaf.
   
• 382 leaves foliated 51-432, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow, pink, and white, or blacked out; many corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line. Manuscript contains several drawings and marginal doodles, especially tigers, but also a human figure, as well as floral patterns in black ink with yellow paint.
   

Extent

1 item (382 leaves) : 13 x 26 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīmacchārīrakamīmāṃsābhāṣye śrīmacchaṃkarabhagavatpādankataucaturthasyādhyāya syacaturthaḥ pādaḥ // śubhaṃbhavatu // (f. 432r).

Subjects topical

• Advaita
• Human body--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Vedanta
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

• Commentaries
• Treatises
• Drawings (visual works)
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--17th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--17th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

Licenses

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