Details

Subjects:

Hindu mantras.
Advaita.
Vedanta.
Indian philosophy.
Hindu philosophy.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript was used for contemplation and study and is a short Hindu philosophical treatise and commentary on the Great saying (mahāvākya), particularly the phrase, You are that (tat tvam asi), often functioning as a mantra and derived from late Vedic upaniṣads. The work is written from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedanta school of philosophy.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 8v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīśaṃkarācāryviracitaṃ samāpta[ḥ] // śrīśaṃkarārpaṇam astu // (f. 8v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line.

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 4135 (UP 1134).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1134

OCLC:

898496308