Details

Subjects:

Truth -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Advaita.
Vedanta.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Drawings (visual works)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a short Hindu philosophical treatise, Understanding of truth, written from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 9r).
Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
9 leaves foliated 1-8, [i], upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmacchaṃkarācāryaviracitas tattvabodhaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 9r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; decorative floral border on title page (f. 1r).

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 4115 (UP 1125).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1125.

OCLC:

902676305