Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1085: Brahmānanda. University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1085: 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 © 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. 26r); commentary title Tātparyabodhinī supplied by cataloger; alternate commentary title Pañcadaśīprakāśikā supplied by cataloger. Written in 17-21 lines per leaf. 26 leaves foliated 2-26, even numbers only, upper left and lower right verso. Scribe is Dīnārtha (f. 26r). Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line. Watermarks with some kind of crest. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1085 9963322253503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/900094564 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6332225 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 Dīnārtha Colophon: iti śrīparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrībhāratītīrthavidyāraṇyamuniviracito brahmānaṃde viṣayānaṃdākhyaṃ paṃcamaprakaraṇaṃ samāptim agamat // (f. 26r).

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 1 item (26 leaves) : 11 x 31 cm Senses and sensation--Religious aspects--Hinduism Advaita Vedanta Hindu philosophy Philosophy, Indic Treatises Commentaries Watermarks Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century Manuscripts--India--18th century Manuscripts--India--19th century