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Jīvanmuktiviveka, circa 1700-1850.
जीवन्मुक्तिविवेक
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 814
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Mādhava, -1386.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Hindu philosophy.
- Philosophy, Indic.
- Vedanta.
- Salvation--Hinduism.
- Salvation.
- Mokṣa.
- Genre:
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (68 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 25 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 814
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a philosophical treatise on the state of realization known as jīvanmukti, when a human being is released from this world (saṃsāra) while still living in it through the ideal of non-attachment; a kind of Hindu enlightenment or salvation, often referred to as mokṣa (release). Treatise is written from the perspective of medieval Vedānta school of philosophy.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 68v).
- Written in 10 lines per leaf.
- 68 leaves foliated 1-68, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti jīvanmuktivivekaḥ samāptaḥ śrīrāmaḥ (f. 68v).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
- Cited in:
- Listed in H.I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 3978 (UP 814).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 814
- OCLC:
- 881828665
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