Details

Subjects:

Advaita.
Vedanta.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Watermarks.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise whose title is translated as Commentary on the Light of non-dualism, written about and from the perspective of Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 30v).
Written in 11-13 lines per leaf.
30 leaves foliated 1-30, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryavaryabhagavannṛsiṃhāśramapūjyapādaśiṣyasya śrīnārāyaṇāśramviracitādvaitadīpikāvivaraṇe ānaṃdadīpikākhyaścaturthaḥ parichadaḥ // śrī nṛsiṃhārpaṇam astu // advaitadīpikāṭIkānārāyaṇī saṃpūrṇā // śrīrastu śubhaṃ bhavatu // (f. 30v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant words, symbols, and phrases, highlighted in red throughout.
Watermark of a triple circle on top of which rests a cross. Within each circle is a crescent moon, the initials B and M, and a flower, respectively.

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 3917 (UP 1095).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1095

OCLC:

898029603