Details

Standardized Title:

Pañcadaśī. Selections

Subjects:

Advaita.
Vedanta.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Watermarks.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise, part of a work called the Fifteen chapters (Pañcadaśī) that focuses on different expressions of ultimate reality (being, consciousness, and bliss) and is drawn from the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy. Manuscript also contains an extensive commentary, the Tattvavivekaprakaraṇa, by Rāmakṛṣṇa.

Notes:

Title from end title page (f. 23v); title of commentary, Tattvavivekaprakaraṇa, supplied by cataloger.
Written in 6-10 lines per leaf.
23 leaves foliated 1-23, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmat paramahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrīmatbhāratītīrthavidyāraṇyamunikiṃ kareṇa viracitātatvavivekapadadIpikāsamāptā // śrīsāṃbasadāśivārpaṇam astu // śrīrastu // (f. 23r).
Manuscript was formerly part of a larger manuscript that included Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1078.
Watermarks of some kind of crest.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double 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 3997 (UP 1077).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1077

Contains:

Rāmakr̥ṣṇa. Tattvavivekaprakaraṇa.

OCLC:

900084346