Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is part of a larger Hindu philosophical treatise on how all matter evolved from five subtle elements, from the perspective of the Vedānta school of philosophy.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Written in 10 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Incipit: athapaṃcīkaraṇyalikhyate // (f. 1r).
Dated saṃvat 1875 (1818) (f. 2v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.

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 4214 (UP 1154).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1154

OCLC:

902676961