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

Title

Authors

• Śaṅkarācārya
• Ānandagiri, active 13th century

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963754123503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/905546439
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6375412

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and meditation and is a poetic and devotional work written from the perspective of Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta attributed to Śaṅkarācārya, but thought to be a recounting of the conversion experience of one of his disciples. Ānandagiri's commentary Hastāmalaka runs parallel above and below the main text.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 11v); title of commentary, Hastāmalaka, from commentary colophon (f. 11v).
   
• Written in 11 lines per leaf.
   
• 11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1883 and śaka 1748 (1826) (f. 11v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Conversion--Hinduism
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Advaita
• Vedanta
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

• Commentaries
• Treatises
• Poems
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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