Details

Subjects:

Śaṅkarācārya. Daśaslokī.
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 and commentary on Śaṅkarācārya's Daśaslokī, written from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta branch of philosophy.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 37r).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
37 leaves foliated 1-36, [i], upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmadhusūdanasarasvatīviracitaḥ siṃddhāṃtabiṃduḥ saṃpūrṇaḥ // śrīrāma // (37 r).
Dated circa 1836 based on watermark date of 1836.
Mistakes blacked out; additions and corrections added throughout, some in a second scribal hand; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
Watermarks bearing the date of 1836 and a crest of a seated Britannia throughout the manuscript.

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 1777 (UP 1088).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1088

OCLC:

900094834