Details

Other Title:

Svātmanirūpana.

Subjects:

Brahman.
Self (Philosophy).
Vedanta.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is treatise on the nature of the Self, from a Vedanta perspective. The Self is viewed as equivalent to the ultimate universal principal, the brahman. Opens with a praise of the guru as a liberator from saṃsāra.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 11r); alternate title Svātmanirūpana supplied by cataloger.
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmadgoviṃdabhagavatpūjyapādaśiṣya śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrīmacchaṃkarācāryaviracitāḥ svātmānaṃdaprakāryāḥ samāptāṃ // śubhaṃ bhavatu // (f. 11r).
Mistakes blacked out; some folios treated with yellow turmeric powder.

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 4156 (UP 553).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 553

OCLC:

854876686