Details

Subjects:

Advaita.
Vedanta.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a short Hindu philosophical treatise summarizing the tenets of the Advaita (non-dual) branch of the Vedanta school. Manuscript contains an extensive commentary by Anandagiri called the Puṣpāñjali that runs parallel above and below the main text.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 5v); title of commentary, Puṣpāñjali, from commentary colophon (f. 5v).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti laghuvākāvṛttipuṣpāṃjaliṭīkākhyaṃvedāṃtaprakaraṇaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // śubhaṃ bavatu // saṃvat 1858 // citrabhānu (f. 5v).
Dated saṃvat 1858 (1801) (f. 5v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, or 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 4131 (UP 834).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 834

Contributor:

Ānandagiri, active 13th century.

Contains:

Puṣpāñjali.

OCLC:

881832688