Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise analyzing the nature of the self (ātman) and one of its aspects of pure happiness or joy (ānanda) from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 8r).
Written in 8 lines per leaf.
8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti govindabhagavatpūjyapādaśiṣyaśrīmacchaṃkarakṛtāḥ svātmānaṃdaprkāṣikāryāḥ samāptāḥ // śrīnāṛāyaṇārpaṇam astu // (f. 8r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins, some in a second scribal hand; verse dividers in red throughout; vertical margins marked with quadruple red 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 4157 (UP 1075).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1075

OCLC:

900084218