Details

Subjects:

Hindu mantras.
Advaita.
Vedanta.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript 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. 4v).
Written in 13-14 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakāvāryaśrīmatśaṃkarācāryaviracitaṃ vākyavṛttiprakaraṇaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // oṃ tat sat // (f. 4v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant words and phrases, as well as verse numbers highlighted in red.

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 4136 (UP 1143).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1143

OCLC:

898564781