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Title

Authors

• Śaṅkarācārya

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963506203503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/903130398
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6350620

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise analyzing the nature of the self (ātman) and one of its aspects of pure happiness or joy (ānanda), from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 6v).
   
• Written in 14-16 lines per leaf.
   
• 6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1722 (1800) (f. 6v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; floral pattern on border of front cover in red and black (f. 1r).
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Ātman
• Self (Philosophy)
• Advaita
• Vedanta
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1179: Svātmānandaprakāśa 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 ©2017 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

  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated border, f. 1r