Details

Subjects:

Śaṅkarācārya. Pañcīkaraṇa.
Advaita.
Vedanta.
Om.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.
Hindu mantras.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise written from the perspective of the Advaita Vedānta school of philosophy. The work is a super-commentary (vārttika) on the Pañcīkaraṇa by Śaṅkarācārya. Work describes the stages of cosmic evolution, the role of the mantra Oṃ, as well as the place of the Self and its realization within that process of evolution. Lacks an ending

Notes:

Title from abbreviations in upper left margins.
Written in 11-14 lines per leaf.
9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or 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 4185 (UP 2414).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2414.

OCLC:

965447239