Details

Standardized Title:

Pañcadaśī. Selections

Subjects:

Human body -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
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 Hindu philosophical treatise, part of a work called the Fifteen chapters (Pañcadaśī) that focuses on different aspects, concepts, and ideas drawn from the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy. The particular section of the manuscript, the Pañcakośaviveka, is an examination of the Five sheaths (Pañcakośa) or outer layers of the body. The manuscript also contains an extensive commentary, the Pañcakośavyākhyā, by Rāmakṛṣṇa.

Notes:

Title from marginal abbreviations; title of commentary, Pañcakośavyākhyā, from colophon (f. 7v).
Written in 12-14 lines per leaf.
7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon (commentary): iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryabhāratī tīrthavidyāraṇyamunivarya kiṃ kareṇa rāmakṛṣṇākhyena viduṣāviracitā paṃcakośavyākhyā samāptā // (f. 7r)
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 4020A (UP 1014).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1014

Contains:

Rāmakr̥ṣṇa. Pañcakośavyākhyā.

OCLC:

895786882