Details

Standardized Title:

Pañcadaśī. Selections

Subjects:

Meditation -- 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 Light on meditation, 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. 14v); commentary title Tātparyabodhinī supplied by cataloger; alternate commentary title Pañcadaśīprakāśikā supplied by cataloger.
Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
14 leaves foliated 1-14, upper left verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrībhāratitīrthavidyāraṇyamuni kiṃ kareṇa śrīrāmakṛṣṇākhyaviduṣāviracitā dhyānadīpākhyā samāptā // (f. 14v).
Manuscript was formerly part of a larger manuscript along with Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1034, Item 1035, Item 1036, Item 1037, Item 1038, Item 1040, Item 1041, Item 1042, Item 1043, Item 1044, and Item 1045.
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 all folios, including a horse and various parts of words and letters.
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 4009 (UP 1039).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1039

Contributor:

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

Contains:

Rāmakr̥ṣṇa. Tātparyabodhinī.
Rāmakr̥ṣṇa. Pañcadaśīprakāśikā.

OCLC:

897831727