Details

Subjects:

Vedanta.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Prayers (documents)
Poems.
Watermarks.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Short collection of five (pañcaka) verses dedicated to the deity Śiva and marginally associated with Vedānta philosophy and attributed to the philosopher Śaṅkarācārya.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2r).
Written in 6 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīśaṃkarācāryaviracitaṃ nirvāṇapaṃcakastotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // (f. 2r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.
Possible partial watermarks of a coat of arms.

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 1794 (UP 2191).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2191.

OCLC:

960907283