Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts
by Rajendralala Mitra | 1871 | 921,688 words
These pages represent a detailed description of Sanskrit manuscripts housed in various libraries and collections around the world. Each notice typically includes the physical characteristics, provenance, script, and sometimes even summaries of the content of the Sanskrit manuscripts. The collection helps preserve and make accessible the vast herit...
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34 Vedanta-kalpataru-parimala alias Parimala-tika. The oldest and most revered commentary on the Vedanta Aphorisms of Vyasa, is the Bhashya of Sankara Acharya, which gave them solidity and systematic consistency. The Bhashya has formed the theme of a large number of exegeses, the most approved being the Bhamati of Vachaspati Misra, now in course of publication for the first time by the Asiatic Society of Bengal. The Bhamati is in its turn expounded by the Kalpataru of Amalananda, and Apyaya Dikshita annotates the last in his Parimala, the work under notice. The MS. is very defective wanting 9 leaves at the beginning and about one-third at the end. Hall's Contributions, p. 88. Beginning. (prarambhe 9 patrani na santi 10 patrasya prathamapathah | ) End. visayah | kalpatam vahistu nilam nabhah | sivalam nabha ityadipratyayasthalokavisayatvam na kalpaniyam | (10) vedantasutrabhasyatikaya bhamatyah kalpatarunamika ya tika tasyah vyakhyanam | No. 1414. vedantakalpalata | Substance, country-made paper, 12 x 5 inches. Folia, 26. Lines, 11 on a page. Extent, 832 slokas. Character, Nagara. Date, ? Place of deposit, Calcutta, Government of India. Appearance, old. Prose. Generally correct. Vedanta-kalpalata. A theistic refutation of the opinions of the six leading schools of philosophy and a pantheistic scheme of salvation. By Madhusudana Sarasvati. The author was an ardent Vedantist, and an able and distinguished commentator. In Mr. Hall's 'Contributions', the work is named Vedanta-kalpalata-tika, and is described as "a disquisition on the nature of pantheistic salvation" (p. 132). The author has written a commentary on the Bhagavata, extending to a hundred thousand verses, but it is very scarce, and has nowhere been noticed; I saw only a few pages of it once with a Yati at Benares. His Commentary on the Gita is highly esteemed by Vedantists. Beginning. mimamsaya kapatato bhujagambayeva svadhinatamupanisadvaniteva nita | yenoddhrta'nrtaphalena garutmateva tasmai namo bhagavate'dbhutasankaraya || 1 ||