[South Indian Sanskrit MS 105, Whish MS 104] Vedāntaśāstrasiddhāntaleśasaṃgraha

Vedāntaśāstrasiddhāntaleśasaṃgraha

Language – Sanskrit

Date – [1800?]
Palm leaf; 7 or 8 lines on a folio.

Manuscript consists of the text of the Vedāntaśāstrasiddhāntaleśasaṃgraha by Appayya Dīkṣita, son of Raṅgarāja Dīkṣita. On the outer cover the following titles are given: “Siddhāntaleśasaṃgraha, or Siddhāntabhedasaṃgraha, or Siddhāntasārasaṃgraha”.

Text begins: yadvīkṣaṇaṃ sakalabhūta[ṃ] ca yasya sṛṣṭir yyasya smitaṃ sakalabhautikasṛṣṭir eṣā | yanmāyayā vilasitañ jagad indrajālaṃ tasmai namo bhagavate parameśvarāya || adhigatabhidā pūrvācāryyān upetya sahasradhā sarid iva mahīdeśān saṃprāpya śauripadotgatā | jayati bhagavatpādaśrīmanmukhāṃbujanirgatā jananahariṇī sūktir brahmādvayaikaparāyaṇā | etc.

It ends: iti vedāntaśāstrasiddhāntaleśasaṃgrahe caturtthaḥ paricchedaḥ || vidvatguror vihi[?] taviśvajidaddhvarasya śrīsarvatomukhamahāvratayājisūnoḥ śrī-Raṃgarājamakhina śritacandramaulir asmy Appadīkṣita iti prathitas tanūjaḥ | tantrāṇy adhītya sakalāni sa tātapāda[sadāvadāta?]vyākhyānakauśalakalāviśadīkṛtāni | ātmāya vākyam[āsthāya mūlam?] anuruddhya ca saṃpradāyasiddhāntabhedalavasaṃgraham ity akārṣīt | siddhāntarītiṣu mayā bhramadūṣitena syād yad yathāpi likhitaṃ yadi kiñcid asya | saṃśodhane sasrayās[?] sadayā bhavantu satsaṃpradāyapariśīlananirviśaṃkāḥ || hariḥ om || śabdāntarābhyāsaguṇasaṃkhyā praka[ra?]ṇanāmadheyāni bhedasādhakapramāṇāni || …. karotu mama kalyāṇaṃ karuṇānidhir īśvaraḥ | jananasthitisaṃhārā[ñ] jagatāṃ vidadhāti yaḥ || śrīmanmahādevāya śaṃbāya [read sāmbāya] parasmai brāhmaṇe namaḥ || om brahmaiva satyañ jagan mithyā on tat sat || śiva śiva || śrī || śubham astu

South Indian Sanskrit / Whish Manuscript Collection.

See ’A catalogue of South Indian Sanskrit manuscripts (especially those of the Whish Collection) belonging to the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland’ by M. Winternitz, with an appendix by F. W. Thomas (London: RAS, 1902) p.144-145. Go to http://tinyurl.com/j3tkdwj for a digital copy of this catalogue. An edition of this work has been published in Vol. I Part I of the Vizianagram Sanskrit Series (Benares, 1890). See also ‘Catalogue of the Sanskrit manuscripts in the Library of the India Office’ by Julius Eggeling (London, 1887-), Part IV by Ernst Windisch and Julius Eggeling, p.790 sqq.

J. L. Whish, gift of manuscripts collected by his brother C. M. Whish, July 1836.

Text in Sanskrit; Grantha script.