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Marginalia<\/b><\/p>

A few marginal corrections by the main scribe. Some punctual corrections with yellow paste.<\/div>
Rare annotations in the margins.<\/div>
Running title (dvā°ma°<\/i>), top left corner, verso.<\/div>
Running invocation (rāma<\/i>), middle right margin, verso.<\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Subject(s)", "value": "Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Vedānta" }, { "label": "Associated Name(s)", "value": "Śaṅkara; Ānanda" }, { "label": "Format", "value": "Pothī" }, { "label": "Data Source(s)", "value": "LVP Add.2551, direct inspection." }, { "label": "Language(s)", "value": "Sanskrit." }, { "label": "Author(s)", "value": "Vaikuṇṭhapurī" }, { "label": "Alternative Title(s)", "value": "Śāntirasanāṭaka; Śāntarasanāṭaka; Dvādaśamahāvākyasiddhānta; Dvādaśamahāvākyavivaraṇa" }, { "label": "Scribe(s)", "value": "Vaiśambhrarāma" }, { "label": "Binding", "value": "

Paper sleeve, original binding, bearing the writing \"dvādaśamahāvākyam \u2013 pa° 43 \u2013 ślo° 550\" in the middle, Devanāgarī script; paperboard envelope, library binding, with title and classmark.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Condition", "value": "Complete, in good condition." }, { "label": "Script", "value": "

Devanāgarī in black ink (main text, corrections and annotations).

Scribe:<\/b>Vaiśambhrarāma.<\/p><\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Excerpts", "value": "

Rubric:<\/b> [1r1]<\/a> śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ<\/div>
Incipit:<\/b> [1r1]<\/a> prajñānam ānaṃd brahma aisaiṃ rigved kahat, ahaṃ brahma asmi [1r2] yajurvedayoṃ ka hai, tat tvam asīti sāmavedayoṃ vaṣā nat<\/div>
Rubric:<\/b> [1v1]<\/a> śrī saccidānaṃdāya namaḥ<\/div>
Incipit:<\/b> [1v1]<\/a> atha dvādaśamahāvākyagraṃtha<\/i>(!)<\/i> likhyate [1v2] vaikuṇṭhapurīparamahaṃsaparivrājakācārya<\/i>(!)<\/i> vicārya saṃkṣepato ve[1v3]dāṃtasūtramahāvākyarthaṃ<\/i>(!)<\/i> prakaṭīkaroti   prajñānarahitaṃ saṃnyāsi[1v4]nimitta<\/i>(!)<\/i> tadupakārahetur vārttikaśāstratadarthagrathitaṃ śāṃtirasanā[1v5]ṭakasaṃjñakaṃ nirūpyate<\/i>(!)<\/i> alpaśāstrajño vaikuṭhapurī atha dharma[1v6]vān, brahmāditācārya anāditaḥ<\/i>(!)<\/i> kramāt prathamācāryo brahmā [1v7] dvitīyācāryo viṣṇus tṛtīyācāryo rudraś caturthācāryo vaśiṣṭhaḥ [1v8] paṃcamācāryaḥ śaktiḥ ṣaṣṭamā<\/i>(!)<\/i>cāryaḥ pārāśara<\/i>(!)<\/i> saptamācāryo vyāśaḥ [2r1]<\/a>aṣṭhamā<\/i>(!)<\/i>cāryo śukadevaḥ navamācāryo gauḍaḥ daśamācāryo goviṃdaḥ e[2r2]kādaśamācāryaḥ śaṃkaraḥ <\/div>
Explicit:<\/b> [42v3]<\/a> kāṃḍatrayaṃ jñānakāṃḍa maṃtrakāṃḍa karmakāṃḍa brahmo[42v4]pāśanāya<\/i>(!)<\/i> hy upayujyate parāpaśyaṃtīmadhyamāvaikharīrūpeṇāvya[42v5]yam api brahma śabdasvarūpeṇātmānam abhivyakti<\/i>(!)<\/i>karoti atharvaṇa[42v6]vedāṃtaṃ śāṃkhyaṃ darśana-upadarśanapātaṃjaladarśanamaṃtraśāstrāṇi iti saṃkṣe\\<\/i>pāt_<\/i>/<\/i> [42v7] brahmasvarūpavedāṃtaprakaraṇe atharvaṇavedavākyagatātmābrahmaśabda[42v8]nirṇayo nāma trayodaśasiddhāṃtaḥ 13 <\/div>
Final Rubric, section:<\/b> [42v8]<\/a> iti śrīparamahaṃsaparivrājakācā[42v9]ryavaikuṃṭhapurīkṛtaṃ dvādaśamahāvākyaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ <\/div>
Colophon:<\/b> [42v9]<\/a>subhaṃ<\/i>(!)<\/i> maṃgalaṃ dadātu [42v10] yādṛśaṃ pustakaṃ dṛṣṭaṃ tādṛśaṃ liṣitaṃ mayā, yadi suddham<\/i>(!)<\/i>asuddhaṃ<\/i>(!)<\/i> vā mama doṣo \\<\/i>na dīyate<\/i>/<\/i>[43r1]<\/a> rāma rāmeti rame rāme manorame, sahaśra<\/i>(!)<\/i>nāma tat tulyaṃ rāmanāmavarānane [43r2] saṃpūrṇo \u2019yaṃ dvādaśamahāvākyaḥm<\/i>(!)<\/i>ittī<\/i>(!)<\/i> saṃvat 18010 nabhasimā[43r3]se kṛṣṇapakṣe navamyāṃ guruvāśare<\/i>(!)<\/i> karṇakuṃḍalapuryyāṃ vaiśaṃbhra[43r4]rāmo vyalīlikhat ciraṃjīvasvātmajakṛṣṇadayālupa[43r5]ṭhanārthaṃ<\/div>" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "Cambridge University Library" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "

An 18th-century copy of a little-known Vedāntic treatise by Vaikuṇṭhapurī (or Viṣṇupurī), still unpublished. The work, of unknown date, deals with various topics related to non-dualist philosophy, and is organised around a discussion of the four upaniṣadic \u201cGreat Sayings\u201d (mahāvākya<\/i>). It begins with a list of Vedāntic teachers from Brahmā to Śaṅkara, considered to be the eleventh master in that tradition. The text transmitted here differs widely from the one found in a similar manuscript kept in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, extracts of which have been published by Th. Aufrecht (1864: 227; Catalogue no. 557). For instance, the Bodleian manuscript contains an initial verse, a list of Śaṅkara\u2019s four (or five) disciples, as well as an account of Vedāntic tradition between them and Vaikuṇṭhapuri (including a list of the ten Śaṅkaran monastic lineages), all of which are missing in the present version of the text. The work might be identical to the one mentioned under the title Dvādaśamahāvākyasiddhānta by Thangaswami (1980: 126; no. 279), who ascribes it, however, to one Ānanda. <\/p>" }, { "label": "Title", "value": "Dvādaśamahāvākya" }, { "label": "Author(s) of the Record", "value": "Hugo David., CUDL PID Workflow" }, { "label": "Material", "value": "Paper.

Folio height: 11.3 cm, width: 24.6 cm. <\/p>" }, { "label": "Layout", "value": "Written area height: ca. 7.9 cm, width: ca. 19.3 cm.

8-10 lines per page, approximately 35 akṣara<\/i>s per line.<\/p> Akṣara height: 6 mm. Interlinear space height: 1 mm.

Rubrics, as well as many passages of the text itself (conclusions, logical articulations, etc.), are marked with red powder throughout the manuscript.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Foliation", "value": "

1. Original: Devanāgarī numerals, top left margin, verso.<\/p>

2. Original: Devanāgarī numerals, right margin, verso.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Bibliography", "value": "

Descriptions of the manuscript<\/b><\/p>

List of Oriental MSS. Class Catalogue of Oriental MSS.<\/i> (Cambridge: 1900\u2013).<\/div>
LVP = de La Vallée Poussin, Louis and Caroline Mary Ridding, U[niversity.L[ibrary].C[ambridge]. Catalogue of Sanskrit MSS<\/i> (Cambridge: 1916).<\/div><\/div>

Manuscripts<\/b><\/p>

CC: vol. 1, p. 442 and vol. 2, p. 102.<\/div>
Oxford,Bodleian Library: no. 557 in the catalogue by Th. Aufrecht (1859: 227), who gives a brief description of the manuscript. <\/div><\/div>

Editions<\/b><\/p>

This text is still unpublished.<\/div><\/div>

Secondary literature<\/b><\/p>

Aufrecht, Th. (Theodor), Catalogus Codicum Manuscriptorum Sanscritorum<\/i>, Catalogi Codicum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1859).<\/div>
Bodleian Library. creator and Theodor Aufrecht, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum sanscriticorum postvedicorum quotquot in Bibliotheca Bodleiana adservantur<\/i> (Oxonii: e Typographeo Academico, 1859).<\/div>
Thangaswami, T., Advaita-Vedānta literature. A bibliographical survey<\/i>, Madras University Sanskrit Series 36 (Madras: University of Madras, 1980).<\/div><\/div>
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