Details

Subjects:

Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.
Vedanta.
Dualism.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Commentaries.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Author's name given in manuscript as Vidyāraṇya Muni (f. 19r-19v).

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise, likely by the philosophical dualist Mādhava, from the perspective of the Vedānta school. Work contains an extensive commentary called the Mahābhūtaviveka, running parallel above and below the main text, written by Rāmakṛṣṇa (f. 19v), which is said to be part of the Tātparyārthadyotinī (f. 19v).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 19r-19v); title of commentary Mahābhūtaviveka from colophon (f. 19v).
Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
19 leaves foliated 1-19, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrībhāratītirthavidyāraṇyamunivarghakiṃkareṇa śrīrāmakṛṣṇākhyena viduṣāviracitāmahābhūtavivekasyatātyaryadīpikā samāptaḥ // (f. 19r-19v).
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. Manuscript likely has the same scribe as Ms. Coll. 390 Item 823 and Item 825.

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 4046 (UP 824).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 824

Contributor:

Rāmakr̥ṣṇa, active 14th century.

Contains:

Mahābhūtaviveka.

OCLC:

881830022