Details

Subjects:

Senses and sensation -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Ātman.
Self (Philosophy).
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 dealing with the senses, desire, the Self, and Ultimate Reality and various social ramifications associated with unenlightened minds (those attached to sensual experience and unable to realize the true nature of the Self (ātman)). Written from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy.

Notes:

Scribe is Bālakṛṣṇa, the son of Bābū Rāva.
Title from colophon (f. 23r).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
23 leaves foliated 1-23, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrīmacchaṃkarācāryaviracitaprabodhasudhākaraḥ samāptaḥ śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu // (f. 23r).
Few if any mistakes; some minor smudging on some characters.

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 4123 (UP 1118).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1118

Contributor:

Bālakṛṣṇa (Son of Bābū Rāva), scribe.

OCLC:

900885878