Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1047: Nāṭakadīpa University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1047: Nāṭakadīpa are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is ©2018 University of Pennsylvania Books & Manuscripts and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Title from colophon (f. 5r); commentary title Tātparyabodhinī supplied by cataloger; alternate commentary title Pañcadaśīprakāśikā supplied by cataloger. Written in 10-12 lines per leaf. 5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left verso. Manuscript was formerly part of a larger manuscript that was copied by two or three scribal hands and includes Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1046, Item 1048, Item 1049, Item 1050, and Item 1051. Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout. Dated saṃvat 1843 (1786) (Ms. Coll 390, Item 1050, f. 7v). Scribe is Bhaguvāsara (Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1050, f. 7r). 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1047 9963174153503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/897836831 Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a treatise on Hindu philosophy whose title is translated as Light on theater, written 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. In Sanskrit Nāṭakadīpa ध्यानदीप Mādhava, -1386 Rāmakr̥ṣṇa Rāmakr̥ṣṇa scribe Bhaguvāsara Colophon: iti śrīvidyāraṇyamuniviracitā nāṭakadīpaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 5v).

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 1 item (5 leaves) : 13 x 32 cm Theater--Religious aspects--Hinduism--Early works to 1800 Advaita--Early works to 1800 Vedanta--Early works to 1800 Hindu philosophy--Early works to 1800 Philosophy, Indic--Early works to 1800 Treatises Commentaries Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century Manuscripts--India--18th century