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Title

Pañcadaśī.
पञ्चदशी

Authors

• Mādhava, -1386
• Rāmakr̥ṣṇa

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 573
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9967918593503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/930726647
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6791859

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

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.
   
• 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.
   

Extent

1 item (313 leaves) : 30 x 14 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryabhagavatpādapūjyaśaṃkarānaṃdaśiṣyena vidyāranyamunikṛtāpaṃcadaśaprakaraṇasamāpta // (f. 4v, final folio of manuscript).

Subjects topical

• Philosophy, Indic
• Hindu philosophy
• Vedanta
• Advaita

Genres

• Commentaries
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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