Details

Subjects:

Vedanta.
Advaita.
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 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. 5r).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmatśaṃkarācāryaviracitatattvabodhaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 5r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins some of which are in a second scribal hand; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.

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 4116 (UP 1251).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1251

OCLC:

905000382