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Title

Jīvanmuktiviveka
जीवन्मुक्तिविवेक

Authors

• Mādhava, -1386

Other related names

• Nārāyaṇa Sānā, scribe

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1089
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963334823503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/900197054
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6333482

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a philosophical treatise on the state of realization known as jīvanmukti, when a human being is released from this world (saṃsāra) while still living in it through the ideal of non-attachment; a kind of Hindu enlightenment or salvation, often referred to as mokṣa (release). Treatise is written from the perspective of the medieval Vedānta school of philosophy.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 66v).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 67 leaves foliated 1-67, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Scribe is Nārāyaṇa Sānā (f. 66v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   
• Date śaka 1766 (1844) (f. 66v)
   
• Watermarks bearing the date of 1841 as well as a crest containing a standing lion or mythical creature holding a scepter.
   

Extent

1 item (67 leaves) : 11 x 34 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrījīvanmuktivivekavidyāraṇyakṛtasamaptiṃ tat sadbrahmārpaṇam astu // (f. 66r).

Subjects topical

• Mokṣa
• Salvation--Hinduism
• Vedanta
• Advaita
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

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

Licenses

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