Details

Standardized Title:

Garland of jewels in the form of questions and answers

Subjects:

Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for public or private recitation, prayer, and contemplation. The title translated into English is Garland of jewels in the form of questions and answers. The work is written in poetic verse and asks religious and philosophical questions about the nature of the world and one's place in it; raises issues such as the cycle of life and death and one's ultimate release from it, especially if one recites the poem. Sometimes the text is attributed to Śaṅkarācārya.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 3v).
Written in 10-11 lines.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śukayatīṃdraviracitā praśnottararatnamālāsamāptā // 1 // (f. 3v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant 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 1798 (UP 2556).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2556.

OCLC:

970693152