Details

Subjects:

Salvation -- Hinduism.
Mokṣa.
Advaita.
Vedanta.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Watermarks.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise that discusses the human capacity for discrimination and argues that it is the crown or crest jewel (cūḍāmaṇi) associated with the process of attaining liberation and release (mokṣa) from the cycle of life and death (saṃsāra), a kind of Hindu soteriology. The work is written from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dualism) school of philosophy.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 25v).
Written in 9-12 lines per leaf.
25 leaves foliated 1-25, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrīmadgoviṃdabhagavatpūjyapādaśiṣyasya śrīmacchaṃkarabhagavatpūjyapādaviracito vivekacūḍāmaṇiḥ samaptiḥ // śrīśebhaje // (f. 25v).
Work was formerly owned and/or copied by Vināyak Dātār (f. 25v).
Dated śaka 1722 (1800) (f. 25v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
Machine-made paper with two kinds of watermarks, one of a name or word possibly beginning with H, and the second of a horse.

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 4145 (UP 1094).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1094

Contributor:

Vināyak Dātār, associated name.

OCLC:

898029193