Details

Subjects:

Advaita.
Vedanta.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a treatise on Hindu philosophy from the perspective of the Advaita Vedānta (non-dualism) branch of philosophy along with an extensive commentary called the Rasābhivyajakā by Svayamprakāśa. Each folio presents one or two lines of the main, root text, with the commentary running parallel above and below it.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 22v); title of commentary, Rasābhivyajakā, from the commentary colophon (f. 22v).
Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
22 leaves foliated 1-22, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrī lakmīdharaviracitam advaitamakaraṃdākhyaprakaraṇaṃ samāptaṃ // (f. 22v).
Dated saṃvat 1883 and śaka 1748 (1826) (f. 22v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.

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 4068 (UP 820).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 820

Contains:

Rasābhivyajakā.

OCLC:

881832574