Details

Subjects:

Bādarāyaṇa. Brahmasūtra.
Advaita.
Human body -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Vedanta.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Drawings (visual works)
Diagrams.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise and commentary (bhāṣya) on the Śārīrakamīmāṃsā, better known as the Brahmasūtra, which inquires into the nature of the embodied spirit (that is, questions about the embodiment of the spirit in human and universal forms). Written from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dual) branch of the Vedānta school of philosophy.

Notes:

Hardwood boards for covers; a floral design is carved into the upper cover and there is writing on the lower cover.
Title from colophon (f. 432r).
Written in 11 lines per leaf.
382 leaves foliated 51-432, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmacchārīrakamīmāṃsābhāṣye śrīmacchaṃkarabhagavatpādankataucaturthasyādhyāya syacaturthaḥ pādaḥ // śubhaṃbhavatu // (f. 432r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow, pink, and white, or blacked out; many corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line. Manuscript contains several drawings and marginal doodles, especially tigers, but also a human figure, as well as floral patterns in black ink with yellow paint.

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 3942 (UP 836).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 836

OCLC:

883240575