Details

Subjects:

Asceticism -- Hinduism.
Advaita.
Vedanta.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Poems.
Watermarks.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

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

Summary:

Text celebrating the blessings associated with being a renunciant ascetic (sāṃnyāsin), such as being blessed for wearing a loin cloth (kaupīna); work extols the virtues of the Vedānta philosophy of Śaṅkarācārya, to whom the work is attributed.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 1r).
Written in 11 lines per leaf.
1 leaf.
Colophon: iti śaṃkarācāryaviracitaṃ kaupInapaṃcakaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // (f. 1r).
Watermark of a partial coat of arms.
Mistakes covered in yellow; significant numbers, words, and phrases highlighted in red.

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 1762 (UP 2456).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2456.

OCLC:

968131422