Details

Standardized Title:

Pañcadaśī. Selections

Subjects:

Advaita.
Vedanta.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Commentaries.
Watermarks.
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 (non-dualism) Vedānta school of Indian philosophy; work contains part of an extensive commentary called the Tātparyabodhinī by Rāmakṛṣṇa running parallel, above and below, the main root text.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r); title of commentary Tātparyabodhinī supplied by cataloger.
Written in 13-14 lines per leaf.
10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīvidyāraṇyakṛtadvaitavivekonāmacaturthodhyāyaḥ 4 śrīkāsiviśveśvarārpaṇastu// 6 // (f. 10v).
Dated śaka 1772 (1850), based on Ms. Coll. 390, Item 890 (f. 1r) and Item 893 (f. 9r), once part of the same manuscript.
Scribe is Janārdana Tāhmaṇakara, based on Ms. Coll. 390, Item 903 (f. 3r), once part of the same manuscript.
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.
Watermarks on a number of folios with the date 1835 and the name W. Venables & Co along with crest shaped as a heart in which there are letters.
Manuscript was originally part of a larger manuscript that was divided into parts before its purchase, but sold together with Ms. Coll. 390, Item 890, Item 892, Item 893, Item 894, Item 895, Item 896, Item 897, Item 898, Item 899, Item 900, Item 902, Item 903, Item 904, and Item 905.

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 4004 (UP 891).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 891

Contributor:

Janārdana Tāhmaṇakara, scribe.

Contains:

Rāmakr̥ṣṇa. Tātparyabodhinī.

OCLC:

884921803