Details

Subjects:

Upanishads. Māṇḍūkyopaniṣad.
Om.
Consciousness -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Hindu mantras.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Commentaries.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Disciple of Ānandātmā (f. 5r).

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise and commentary, reflecting on the Māṇḍūkyopaniṣad, a late Vedic text that focuses Hindu mantras (words or phrases of power), especially the mantra Oṃ, while also outlining four states of consciousness (awake, dreaming, sleeping, and transcendent).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2v).
Written in 13-16 lines per leaf.
5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryānaṃdātmapūjyapādaśiṣyasya śrīśaṃkarānaṃde bhagavataḥ kṛti māṃdūkyopaniṣddīpikā samāptā // (f. 5r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black 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 718 (UP 872).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 872

OCLC:

884918472