Details

Subjects:

Caste.
Philosophy.
India.
Caste -- India -- Philosophy.
Caste -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Advaita.
Vedanta.
Indian philosophy.
Hindu philosophy.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript was used for contemplation and study and is a short Hindu philosophical treatise written from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedanta school of philosophy. The work deals especially with issues of the traditional caste system and purity.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 5v).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmacchaṃkarācāryaviracitopaniṣatsubodhinīvajrasūcī samāptā śake 1754 śobhanāṣde // śrīveṃkaṭeśārpaṇam astu // (f. 5v).
Dated śaka 1754 (1832) (f. 5v).
Mistakes blacked out; corrections and additions in margins.

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 4150 (UP 1093).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1093

OCLC:

898494633