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Title

Paramāmṛta
परमामृत

Authors

• Mukundarāja, active 13th century

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 566
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959922893503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/855264239
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5992289

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Marathi and Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is a philosophical treatise and commentary on various upaniṣads, primarily in Marathi, reflecting on Vedanta doctrine and prescribing a spiritual path steeped in esoteric, meditative practices.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 57r).
   
• Written in 6-7 lines per leaf.
   
• 59 leaves foliated 1-59, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse dividers in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   
• Illustration of vases with flowers and general floral pattern around opening of text (f. 1r) with a decorative rectangle on the final folio (f. 59v).
   

Extent

1 item (59 leaves) : 9 x 17 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīparamāmṛte // mukuṃdarājaviracite upadeśadṛḍhīkaraṇaṃ // sākṣātkāro nāma // caturdaśaprakarṇaḥ // 14 // saṃpūrṇaḥ // (f. 57r).

Subjects topical

• Hindu philosophy
• Indian philosophy
• Vedanta
• Tantrism
• Meditation--Hinduism

Genres

• Treatises
• Commentaries
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — floral border f. 1r