[South Indian Sanskrit MS 015, Whish MS 14] Taittirīya-upaniṣad-bhāṣya

Creator – Śaṅkara
Language-Sanskrit
Date[1800?]

Palm-leaf; 6 lines on a folio.

Text consists of Śaṅkara’s commentary on the Taittirīya Upaniṣad.

Winternitz notes that the ‘Prajotpatti’ year in which the text was copied is probably the Prajāpati year corresponding to 1751/52 CE, or possibly 1811/12 CE.

Text begins: oṃ yasmāj jātañ jagat sarvaṃ yasminn eva pralīyate | yenedan dhyāryyate [sic] caiva tasmai jñānātmane namaḥ | yair ime gurubhiḥ pūrvaṃ padavākyapramāṇataḥ | vyākhyātās sarvavedāntās tān nityaṃ praṇatosmy aham || taittirīyakasārasya mayācāryyaprasādataḥ | vispaṣṭārttharucīnāṃ hi vyākhyeyaṃ saṃpraṇīyate | nityānvayīni karmmāṇi upāttaduritakṣayārtthāni kāmyānityāni ca phalārtthināṃ pūrvasmin granthe idānīn tu karmmopādānahetuparihārāya brahmavidyā prastūyate |

It ends: iti śrīmat-paramahaṃsa-parivrājakācāryya-Govinda-bhagavatpūjyapāda-śiṣya-Śaṃkara-bhagavatpādapūjyaviracite taittirīyyakabhāṣyam samāptam || om || hariḥ om śubham astu om visargabindvakṣara- etc. … hariḥ om dhanurmmāse saummyavāre tritīyāyām prajotpatau | taittirīyyaś ca likhitas Sarppe Śeṣādrisūnunā || hariḥ om śubham astu hariḥ om || prajotpattyabhidhe varṣe cāpamāsy asite dine | pakṣe budhasya sutithau tṛ[tri]tīyāyāṃ bhujaṃgabhe | Śeṣādrisūnunā Veṃk[a]ṭasubrahmaṇyena sādhanā | taittirīyopaniṣado bhāṣyaṃ sulikhitam mayā || śubham astu etc. hariḥ om etc.

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.14-15. Go to http://tinyurl.com/j3tkdwj for a digital copy of this catalogue.

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

Text in Sanskrit; Grantha script.