Details

Subjects:

Philosophy.
Philosophy -- Outlines, syllabi, etc.
Advaita.
Vedanta.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Outlines and syllabi.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Author sometimes referred to in manuscript as Dhamarājādhvarīṃdra, possibly due to a scribal error; also sometimes referred to as Dhamarāja Dīkṣita in manuscripts.

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study, especially by students, and is a Hindu philosophical treatise on the essential doctrines of Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy, its epistemology and ontology.

Notes:

Title from marginal note (f. 1r).
Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
24 leaves foliated 1-24, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti dhamarājādhvarīṃdraṃ viracitāyāṃ vedāṃtaparibhāṣāyāṃ aṭamaparicchedaḥ // samāpto 'yaṃ graṃthaḥ // (f. 24v).
Dated śaka 1763 (1841) (f. 24v).
Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; corrections and additions in margins.

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 3910 (UP 1087).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1087

OCLC:

900094768