Details

Subjects:

Upanishads. Taittirīyopaniṣad.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.
Vedanta.
Advaita.
Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India).

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Pupil of Uttamamṛtapūjyapāda (f. 3r).

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a medieval Hindu philosophical treatise and super-commentary on a commentary written by Śaṅkarācārya on the Taittirīyopaniṣad, exploring themes of the universal Self and its relationship to the underlying principles of existence such as the abstract concept of the brahman. Written from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 3r).
Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmaduttamāmṛtapūjyapādaśiṣyasyajñānāmṛtapateḥ kṛtau bhṛgūpaniṣadbhāṣyaṭippaṇaṃ // (f. 3r).
Scribe is Govinda Brahma, son of Khaṇḍabhaṭṭa Brahma, of the Hindu pilgrimage center of Vārāṇasī, as named in Ms. Coll. 390, Item 914, but named in this manuscript only as Govinda (f. 3r).
Dated saṃvat 1860 (1803) (f. 3r).
Mistakes 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 700 (UP 915).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 915

Contributor:

Govinda Brahma (Son of Khaṇḍabhaṭṭa Brahma), scribe.

OCLC:

888077928