Details

Subjects:

Philosophy, Indic.
Hindu philosophy.
Vedanta.
Advaita.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise, a work called the Fifteen chapters (Pañcadaśī) that focuses on different expressions of ultimate reality (being, consciousness, and bliss) and is drawn from the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy. Manuscript also contains an extensive commentary, the Tattvavivekaprakaraṇa, by Rāmakṛṣṇa, running above and below the root text.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 4v, final folio of manuscript).
Written in 7-13 lines per leaf.
313 leaves foliated 1-21, 1-18, 1-12, 1-16, 1-5, 1-48, 1-66, 1-14, 1-24, 1-6, 1-30, 1-16, 1-27, 1-6, 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryabhagavatpādapūjyaśaṃkarānaṃdaśiṣyena vidyāranyamunikṛtāpaṃcadaśaprakaraṇasamāpta // (f. 4v, final folio of manuscript).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with triple 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 3982, 3994, 4024, 4023, 4003, 4048, 3989, 3999, 3983, 4011, 4015, 4028, 4030, 4034, 4039, (UP 573).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 573.

Contains:

Rāmakr̥ṣṇa. Tattvavivekaprakaraṇa.
Tātparyabodhinī.
Pañcadaśīprakāśikā.

OCLC:

930726661