Details

Subjects:

Siva (Hindu deity).
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:

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 10 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmacchaṃkarācāryaviracitāmanīṣāpaṃcakaṃ samāptā // (f. 2r).
Watermark of a partial coat of arms.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; 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 1805 (UP 2457).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2457.

OCLC:

968131564