[South Indian Sanskrit MS 023, Whish MS 22] Chāndogyopaniṣad-vivaraṇa

Creator – Śaṅkara
Language-Sanskrit
Date [1800?]

Text consists of Śaṅkara’s Chāndogyopaniṣad-vivaraṇa, or Commentary on the Chāndogya Upaniṣad.

Text begins: om ity etad akṣaram ityādyaṣṭāddhyāyī chāndogyopaniṣat | tasyās saṃkṣepatortthajijñāsubhyaḥ ṛjuvivaraṇam alpagranthañ cedaṃ bhāṣyam ārabhyate | tatra saṃbandhaḥ samastaṃ karmmādhigataṃ prāṇādidevatāsahitam arccirādimārgeṇa brahmapratipattikāraṇaṃ | etc.

It ends: iti śrī-Govinda-bhagavat-pādapūjya-śiṣyasya śrīparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryyasya śrīmac-Chaṃkara-bhagavataḥ kṛtau cchāndogyopaniṣad [sic] vivaraṇe aṣṭamaḥ prapāṭhakas samāptaḥ || hariḥ | om | … śrīsarasvatyai namaḥ | śrīmahālakṣmyai namaḥ | pārvatyai namaḥ ||

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.26-27. 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.