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

Title

Authors

• Mādhava, -1386
• Rāmakr̥ṣṇa
• Rāmakr̥ṣṇa
• Rāmakr̥ṣṇa

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963320113503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/900093053

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise, part of 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 incipit (f. 1v); commentary title Tātparyabodhinī supplied by cataloger; alternate commentary titles Pañcadaśīprakāśikā and Tattvavivekaprakaraṇa supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 11-13 lines per leaf.
   
• 12 leaves foliated 1-12, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Manuscript was formerly part of a larger manuscript that includes Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1080, Item 1081, Item 1082, Item 1083, and Item 1084.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line; title page has decorative border drawn free-hand in red ink around the title (f. 1r).
   
• Watermarks of a floral crest as well as another with initials, possibly, M.C.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Advaita
• Vedanta
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

• Treatises
• Commentaries
• Watermarks
• Drawings (visual works)
• Manuscripts, India--18th century
• Manuscripts, India--19th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1079: Pratyaktatvaviveka are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  Metadata is ©2018 University of Pennsylvania Books & Manuscripts and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

  URL

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated border, f. 1r