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

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2457 Manīṣāpañcaka / मनीषापञ्चक

Title

Manīṣāpañcaka
मनीषापञ्चक

Authors

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2457
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

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Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Apocryphal story and didactic poem about the meeting of the Advaita Vedāntan sage Śaṅkarācārya with an untouchable (dalit) man who turns out to be the Hindu god Śiva and their ensuing conversation about the nature of the Self, the body, and caste.

Notes

Extent

1 item (2 leaves) : 11 x 15 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīmacchaṃkarācāryaviracitāmanīṣāpaṃcakaṃ samāptā // (f. 2r).

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fol. 1r
3762_0000.tif (29.5 MB)
3762_0000_thumb.jpg (6.5 KB)
3762_0000_web.jpg (415.4 KB)

fol. 1v-2r
3762_0001.tif (53.0 MB)
3762_0001_thumb.jpg (7.0 KB)
3762_0001_web.jpg (430.8 KB)

fol. 2v
3762_0002.tif (29.5 MB)
3762_0002_thumb.jpg (4.1 KB)
3762_0002_web.jpg (334.6 KB)