Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1090: Ātmabodhaṭīkā University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1090: Ātmabodhaṭīkā 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 of commentary from colophon (f. 13v); title of root text assigned by cataloger. Written in 8-12 lines per leaf. 13 leaves foliated 1-13, upper left and lower right verso. Mistakes covered in yellow or crossed out; corrections and addition in margins; significant phrases highlighted in red at beginning of text. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1090 9963334883503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/900197167 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6333488 Manuscript used for contemplation and study and is a philosophical commentary (ṭīkā) on a work known as the Ātmabhoda, Knowledge of the Self, a summary of Vedānta doctrine, possibly derived from verses of the Atharvaveda, but often attributed to Śaṅkarācārya himself. The commentary is written from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy and is written parallel to, above and below, the root text. In Sanskrit Ātmabodhaṭīkā आत्मबोधटीका Śaṅkarācārya Śaṅkarācārya Colophon: iti śrīsaṃkarācāryaviracitā ātmabodhaṭīkā samāptā (f. 13).

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 1 item (13 leaves) : 11 x 32cm Self (Philosophy) Advaita Vedanta Hindu philosophy Philosophy, Indic Treatises Commentaries Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century Manuscripts--India--18th century Manuscripts--India--19th century