Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1050: Brahmānanda. University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1050: Brahmānanda. 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 title page (f. 7r); commentary title Tātparyabodhinī supplied by cataloger; alternate commentary title Pañcadaśīprakāśikā supplied by cataloger. Written in 5-7 lines per leaf. 7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso. Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins. Dated saṃvat 1843 (1786) (f. 7r). Scribe is Bhaguvāsara (f. 7r). 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 1047, Item 1048, Item 1049, and Item 1051. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1050 9963174553503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/897837478 Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a treatise on Hindu philosophy from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy; it explores and analyzes the worldly experience of the senses and its inferiority to the experience or joy of the abstract principle of the brahman; work contains part of an extensive commentary called the Tātparyabodhinī by Rāmakṛṣṇa running parallel, above and below, the main root text. In Sanskrit Brahmānanda. ब्रह्मानन्द Mādhava, -1386 Rāmakr̥ṣṇa Rāmakr̥ṣṇa scribe Bhaguvāsara Colophon: iti śrīmatparamaha[ṃ]saparivrājakācāryaśrībhāratītīrthavidyāraṇyamunivaryakiṃkareṇa thīrāmakṛṣṇākhaviduṣāviracite brahmānaṃde viṣayānaṃdo nāmapaṃcamodhyāyaḥ iti paṃcadaṣotamaprakaraṇaṃ sa[ṃ]pūrṇaṃ śubham astuśa[ṃ]vat 1843 vaiśākhakṛṣṇa 1 bhaguvāsare likhyataṃ (f. 7r).

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 1 item (7 leaves) : 13 x 32 cm Senses and sensation--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--India--18th century Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century