Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1265: Manīṣāpañcaka University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1265: Manīṣāpañcaka 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. 7r); title of commentary Madhumañjarī ṭIkā from colophon (f. 7r). Written in 13 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; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1265 9963754283503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/905547136 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6375428 Apocryphal story and didactic poem about the meeting of the Advaita Vedāntan sage Śaṅkarācārya with an untouchable (dalit) man who turns out to be the Hindu god Śiva and their ensuing conversation about the nature of the Self, the body, and caste. Manuscript contains a commentary running above and below the root text. In Sanskrit Manīṣāpañcaka मनीषापञ्चक Śaṅkarācārya Colophon: iti śrīmparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrīmadgoviṃdabhagavatpūjyapādaśiṣyaśrīmacchaṃkarācāryakṛtamanīṣāpaṃcakasya madhumaṃjarī ṭIkā saṃpūrṇā // oṃ tat sat // śubhaṃ bhavatu // (f. 7r).

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 1 item (7 leaves) : 11 x 24 cm Dalits Caste Self (Philosophy) Human body--Religious aspects--Hinduism Devotional literature, Sanskrit Advaita Vedanta Hindu philosophy Philosophy, Indic Commentaries Treatises Poems Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century Manuscripts--India--18th century Manuscripts--India--19th century