Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1138: Vedāntasāra University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1138: Vedāntasāra 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. 16v). Written in 10-11 lines per leaf. 16 leaves foliated 1-16, upper left and lower right verso. Dated śaka 1768 (1846) (f. 16v). Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; corrections and additions in margins, some in a second scribal hand. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1138 9963243003503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/898497946 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6324300 Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is a short philosophical treatise considered a summary or essence (sāra) of Vedic knowledge from an Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta perspective. Presented as a discourse between the Hindu deities Śiva and Pārvatī. In Sanskrit Vedāntasāra वेदान्तसार Sadānanda Yogīndra Colophon: iti śrīparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryasadānaṃdakṛto vedāṃtasārasaṃāptaḥ // (f. 16v).

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 1 item (16 leaves) : 11 x 20 cm Advaita Vedanta Hindu philosophy Philosophy, Indic Siva (Hindu deity) Parvati (Hindu deity) Treatises Dialogues Watermarks Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century Manuscripts--India--19th century