Details

Subjects:

Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.
Vedanta.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Student of Kṛṣṇendra Sarasvatī (f. 8r).

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a short treatise on the essentials of medieval Vedānta philosophy; titled the Nectar (amṛta) or Essence of Vedanta.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 8r).
Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakottamaśrīkṛṣṇeṃdrasarasvatīśiṣyeṇa śrīgopāleṃdrasarasvatyākhyabhikṣuṇāgrathitaṃ vedāṃtāmṛtaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // (f. 8r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.

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 3898 (UP 815).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 815

OCLC:

881828793