Details

Standardized Title:

Pañcadaśī. Selections

Subjects:

Senses and sensation -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Advaita.
Vedanta.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a treatise on Hindu philosophy from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy; it explores and analyzes the worldly experience of the senses and its inferiority to the experience or joy of the abstract principle of the brahman; work contains part of an extensive commentary called the Tātparyabodhinī by Rāmakṛṣṇa running parallel, above and below, the main root text.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 26r); commentary title Tātparyabodhinī supplied by cataloger; alternate commentary title Pañcadaśīprakāśikā supplied by cataloger.
Written in 17-21 lines per leaf.
26 leaves foliated 2-26, even numbers only, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrībhāratītīrthavidyāraṇyamuniviracito brahmānaṃde viṣayānaṃdākhyaṃ paṃcamaprakaraṇaṃ samāptim agamat // (f. 26r).
Scribe is Dīnārtha (f. 26r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line.
Watermarks with some kind of crest.

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 4056 (UP 1085).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1085

Contributor:

Dīnārtha, scribe.

Contains:

Rāmakr̥ṣṇa. Tātparyabodhinī.
Rāmakr̥ṣṇa. Pañcadaśīprakāśikā.

OCLC:

900094565