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Title

Jīvanmuktiviveka
जीवन्मुक्तिविवेक

Authors

• Mādhava, -1386

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 814
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962294173503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/881828664
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6229417

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 medieval Vedānta school of philosophy.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 68v).
   
• Written in 10 lines per leaf.
   
• 68 leaves foliated 1-68, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   

Extent

1 item (68 leaves) : 11 x 25 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti jīvanmuktivivekaḥ samāptaḥ śrīrāmaḥ (f. 68v).

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

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