Māṇḍūkyopaniṣaddīpikā, circa 1700-1850.
माण्डूक्योपनिषद्दीपिका

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Śaṅkarānanda, active 1290.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Upanishads. Māṇḍūkyopaniṣad.

Upanishads.

Om.

Consciousness--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Consciousness.

Hindu mantras.

Hindu philosophy.

Philosophy, Indic.

Genre:

treatises

commentaries

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (5 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 26 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 872

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Disciple of Ānandātmā (f. 5r).

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise and commentary, reflecting on the Māṇḍūkyopaniṣad, a late Vedic text that focuses Hindu mantras (words or phrases of power), especially the mantra Oṃ, while also outlining four states of consciousness (awake, dreaming, sleeping, and transcendent).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2v).

Written in 13-16 lines per leaf.

5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryānaṃdātmapūjyapādaśiṣyasya śrīśaṃkarānaṃde bhagavataḥ kṛti māṃdūkyopaniṣddīpikā samāptā // (f. 5r).

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.

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 718 (UP 872).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 872

OCLC:

884918472