Details

Subjects:

Hindu philosophy.
Indian philosophy.

Form/Genre:

Compendiums.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Author lived around the period the manuscript was written (18th century); he is sometimes also called Rāmadeva Cirañjīva.

Summary:

Manuscript use for consultation and study and is a collection of religious and philosophical discussions as presented through the voice of different authors of the past. Text referred to as, Fountain of pleasure to the learned.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 39v).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
40 leaves foliated 1-39, [40], upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrī cīraṃjīvabhaṭṭācāryyakṛtavidvanmodataraṃgiṇyām aṣṭamaḥ staraṃgaḥ // śrīrastu // saṃvat 1833 śāke 1698 mitīvaiśākhakṛṣṇa 10 śanau // śrī // - adṛṣṭabhāvān mativibhramāccayadyarthahīnaṃ likhitaṃ mamātra // tat sarvam āryyai pariśodhanīyaṃ kopaṃnakurpādihalekhakasya // likhitaṃ gālaṇekaro 'panākaśrīkṛṣṇabhaṭṭātmajaprabhākeṇa // madhupuriyāṃ // śrīrastu // (f. 39v).
Dated saṃvat 1833 śāke 1698 mitīvaiśākhakṛṣṇa 10 śanau (Monday, May 13, 1776) (f. 39v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins along with extensive notes in a second scribal hand; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; 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 3508 (UP 512).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 512

OCLC:

847762360