Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Attributed to Śaṅkarācārya, but more likely written by one of his followers.

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.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2v).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīśaṃkarācāryaviracitaṃ manīṣāpaṃcakaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // (f. 2v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.
Scribe is Viśvanātha Bhāgavata (f. 2r).

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 1804 (UP 2449).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2449.

Contributor:

Viśvanātha Bhāgavata, scribe.

OCLC:

968130721