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

Title

Authors

• Mādhava, -1386
• Rāmakr̥ṣṇa
• Rāmakr̥ṣṇa

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963320653503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/900093947

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a treatise on Hindu philosophy from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy; it explores and analyzes the nature of the five elements (ether, air, fire, water and earth) and how they may be differentiated from the ultimate principle in the universe, the brahman; work contains part of an extensive commentary called the Tātparyabodhinī by Rāmakṛṣṇa running parallel, above and below, the main root text.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 12v); commentary title Tātparyabodhinī supplied by cataloger; alternate commentary title Pañcadaśīprakāśikā supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 8-13 lines per leaf.
   
• 12 leaves foliated 1-12, upper left verso; foliated 13-24, lower right verso.
   
• Manuscript was formerly part of a larger manuscript that includes Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1079, Item 1080, 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 crest and crowned lion as well as a two-headed eagle with a crown.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Matter--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• 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

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  URL

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• Text

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