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:

Title from colophon (f. 7v).
Written in 14-15 lines per leaf.
7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti prabodhasudhākare saguṇanirguṇayoraikyaprakaraṇaṃ // prakaraṇeṃ 18 śloka 234 saṃpūrṇaṃ // devadharaṃ upanāmakaṃ viśvanāthasya sunugoviṃdena likhitaṃ // (f. 7v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
Scribe is Govinda Devadhara, son of Viśvanātha Devadhara (f. 7v).

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 4217 (UP 1261).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1261

Contributor:

Govinda Devadhara (Son of Viśvanātha Devadhara), scribe.

OCLC:

905011774