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

Title

Authors

• Mādhava, -1386
• Rāmakr̥ṣṇa
• Rāmakr̥ṣṇa

Other related names

• Bhaguvāsara, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963174293503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/897836951

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. 36r); commentary title Tātparyabodhinī supplied by cataloger; alternate commentary title Pañcadaśīprakāśikā supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 6-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 36 leaves foliated 1-30, 30-35, upper left verso.
   
• Manuscript was formerly part of a larger manuscript that was copied by two or three scribal hands and includes Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1046, Item 1047, Item 1049, Item 1050, and Item 1051.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; root text highlighted in red throughout.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1843 (1786) (Ms. Coll 390, Item 1050, f. 7v).
   
• Scribe is Bhaguvāsara (Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1050, f. 7r).
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Meditation--Hinduism--Early works to 1800
• Advaita--Early works to 1800
• Vedanta--Early works to 1800
• Hindu philosophy--Early works to 1800
• Philosophy, Indic--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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