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Vedanta
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निर्वाणाष्टक
Nirvānāstaka
No. 406
149 No. 1891-95
Size.-8 in. by 4 in. Extent.- 1 leaf ; 7 lines to a page ; 23 letters to a line.
Description.-Country paper thick, tough, but smooth and grey.
Devanāgari Characters; handwriting bold, clear and uniform. Borders ruled with double red lines. Beginning and punctuation-marks in red. In view of only 6 verses found in this Ms. it is difficult to explain the title Nirva.
nāstaka instead of Nirvana-satka. Age.-Samvat 1881.
Author.-Samkarācārya. Begins.- fol. 1.
श्रीगणेशाय नमः॥ मनोवुद्धिहंकारचित्तानि नाहं ॥ न श्रोत्रं न जिह्वा न च घ्राणनेत्रं ।। न चाव्योमभूमिर्न तेजो न वायुः॥
चिदानंदरूपं शिवोहं शिवोहं ॥१॥ etc. Ends.-fol. 10.
अहं निर्विकल्पो निराकाररूपो॥ विमुक्तां च सर्वत्र सर्वेद्रियाणिः ॥ नचाषण्मतो नैव मुक्तिर्नचोभि॥ चिदानंदरूपं शिवोहं शिवोहं ॥६॥ इति श्रीमत्संकराचार्यविरचित निर्वाणाष्टकसंपूर्ण ॥
संवत् ॥ १९९१ ॥ माहा सूद १० शनि ॥ References.
(1) Mss.-A-Aufrecht's Catalogus Catalogorum :III 648.
