Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1094: Vivekacūḍāmaṇi University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1094: Vivekacūḍāmaṇi 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 colophon (f. 25v). Written in 9-12 lines per leaf. 25 leaves foliated 1-25, upper left and lower right verso. Work was formerly owned and/or copied by Vināyak Dātār (f. 25v). Dated śaka 1722 (1800) (f. 25v). Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins. Machine-made paper with two kinds of watermarks, one of a name or word possibly beginning with H, and the second of a horse. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1094 9963186143503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/898029192 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6318614 Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise that discusses the human capacity for discrimination and argues that it is the crown or crest jewel (cūḍāmaṇi) associated with the process of attaining liberation and release (mokṣa) from the cycle of life and death (saṃsāra), a kind of Hindu soteriology. The work is written from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dualism) school of philosophy. In Sanskrit Vivekacūḍāmaṇi विवेकचूडामणि Śaṅkarācārya associated name Vināyak Dātār Colophon: iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrīmadgoviṃdabhagavatpūjyapādaśiṣyasya śrīmacchaṃkarabhagavatpūjyapādaviracito vivekacūḍāmaṇiḥ samaptiḥ // śrīśebhaje // (f. 25v).

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 1 item (25 leaves) : 11 x 31 cm Salvation--Hinduism Mokṣa Advaita Vedanta Hindu philosophy Philosophy, Indic Treatises Watermarks Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century Manuscripts--India--19th century