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

Title

Authors

• Mādhava, -1386
• Rāmakr̥ṣṇa

Other related names

• Janārdana Tāhmaṇakara, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962431643503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/884923619
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6243164

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a treatise on Hindu philosophy; a discussion on the unchangeability of the inner self from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy; work contains part of an extensive commentary called the Tātparyabodhinī by Rāmakṛṣṇa running parallel, above and below, the main root text.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 11r); commentary title Tātparyabodhinī supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 13-17 lines per leaf.
   
• 11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1772 (1850), based on Ms. Coll. 390, Item 890 (f. 1r) and Item 893 (f. 9r), once part of the same manuscript.
   
• Scribe is Janārdana Tāhmaṇakara, based on Ms. Coll. 390, Item 903 (f. 3r), once part of the same manuscript.
   
• 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.
   
• Manuscript was originally part of a larger manuscript that was divided into parts before its purchase, but sold together with Ms. Coll. 390, Item 890, Item 891, Item 892, Item 893, Item 894, Item 895, Item 897, Item 898, Item 899, Item 900, Item 902, Item 903, Item 904, and Item 905.
   
• Watermarks on some folios with the date 1847 together with the name W. Warren & Sons; other folios have a crest with a seated Britannia on it.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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