Details

Subjects:

Dalits.
Caste.
Self (Philosophy).
Human body -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Advaita.
Vedanta.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Apocryphal story and didactic poem about the meeting of the Advaita Vedāntan sage Śaṅkarācārya with an untouchable (dalit) man who turns out to be the Hindu god Śiva and their ensuing conversation about the nature of the Self, the body, and caste. Manuscript contains a commentary running above and below the root text.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 7r); title of commentary Madhumañjarī ṭIkā from colophon (f. 7r).
Written in 13 lines per leaf.
7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrīmadgoviṃdabhagavatpūjyapādaśiṣyaśrīmacchaṃkarācāryakṛtamanīṣāpaṃcakasya madhumaṃjarī ṭIkā saṃpūrṇā // oṃ tat sat // śubhaṃ bhavatu // (f. 7r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; 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 1807 (UP 1265).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1265

Contains:

Madhumañjarī ṭIkā.

OCLC:

905547156