Details

Standardized Title:

Pañcadaśī. Selections

Subjects:

Dualism (Religion) -- Hinduism.
Dualism (Religion).
Hinduism.
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 whose title is translated as Treatise on the discrimination of dualism, written from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of 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 colophon (f. 15r); commentary title Tātparyabodhinī supplied by cataloger; alternate commentary title Pañcadaśīprakāśikā from colophon (f. 15r).
Written in 13 lines per leaf.
8 leaves foliated 8-15, upper left verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrīvidyāraṇyamunivaryakiṃkareṇa rāmakṛṣṇākhyetādvaitavivekapadayojanālikhitā samāptā // rāmakṛṣṇa (f. 15r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
Watermarks on a number of folios with the date 1842 and the name, Lumsden &, along with a crest of Britannia on other folios.
Manuscript was formerly part of a larger manuscript along with Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1035, Item 1036, Item 1037, Item 1038, Item 1039, Item 1040, Item 1041, Item 1042, Item 1043, Item 1044, and Item 1045.
Dated śaka 1766 (1844) (Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1045, f. 3r).
Scribe is Nārāyaṇa (Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1035, f. 3r).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Raṅganātha Marāṭhe, son of Mayūreśvara (colophon, Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1045, f. 3r).

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 4007 (UP 1034).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1034

Contributor:

Nārāyaṇa, scribe.
Raṅganātha Marāṭhe (Son of Mayūreśvara), former owner.

Contains:

Rāmakr̥ṣṇa. Tātparyabodhinī.
Rāmakr̥ṣṇa. Pañcadaśīprakāśikā.

OCLC:

897828404