Details

Subjects:

Indian philosophy.
Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Vedanta.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Author also known as Icchārāmasvāmin.

Summary:

Manuscript used for contemplation and study and is a late medieval philosophical work expounding on the nature of being and the supremacy of the Hindu deity Viṣṇu from a Vedanta perspective.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f.33v).
Written in 8-11 lines per leaf.
34 leaves foliated 1-33, [34], upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmadrāmadāraviracitāpaṃcaprakaraṇīsamāptāḥ // satyaṃ jñānam anaṃtam ekam ajaraṃ vibhuḥ // guruśuśrūṣayājñānaṃ vinābhyāsena jāyate saparam ābhāni bhakṣaṃti yathā 'nyeṃvarasaṃginaḥ //2// (f. 33v).
Dated śaka 1803 (1881) (f. 33v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some phrases highlighted in red.
Indian stock of paper with several watermarks: one depicts a crown over an oval inside of which is an elephant; another has a schooner or some other kind of tall ship along with the date 1880; the name Byramji Shapoorji appears on several folios; another has the word London as part of a longer company name, which is indistinguishable.

Cited in:

Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 4063 (UP 543).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 543

OCLC:

854579202