Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Mādhava, -1386
• Rāmakr̥ṣṇa
• Rāmakr̥ṣṇa

Other related names

• Nārāyaṇa, scribe
• Raṅganātha Marāṭhe (Son of Mayūreśvara), former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963172493503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/897831726
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6317249

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a treatise on Hindu philosophy whose title is translated as Light on meditation, written from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy; work contains part of an extensive commentary called the Tātparyabodhinī by Rāmakṛṣṇa running parallel, above and below, the main root text.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 14v); commentary title Tātparyabodhinī supplied by cataloger; alternate commentary title Pañcadaśīprakāśikā supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 14 leaves foliated 1-14, upper left verso.
   
• Manuscript was formerly part of a larger manuscript along with Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1034, Item 1035, Item 1036, Item 1037, Item 1038, Item 1040, Item 1041, Item 1042, Item 1043, Item 1044, and Item 1045.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   
• Watermarks on all folios, including a horse and various parts of words and letters.
   
• Dated śaka 1766 (1844) (Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1045, f. 3r).
   
• Scribe is Nārāyaṇa (Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1035, f. 3r).
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Raṅganātha Marāṭhe, son of Mayūreśvara (colophon, Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1045, f. 3r).
   

Subjects topical

• Meditation--Hinduism
• Advaita
• Vedanta
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

• Treatises
• Commentaries
• Watermarks
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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