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Tattvabodha, circa 1700-1850.
तत्त्वबोध
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1000
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Śaṅkarācārya.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Truth--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Truth.
- Vedanta.
- Advaita.
- Hindu philosophy.
- Philosophy, Indic.
- Genre:
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (6 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 32 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1000
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a short Hindu philosophical treatise, Understanding of truth, written from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 5v).
- Written in 8 lines per leaf.
- 6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti ttatvabodhaprakaraṇaṃ samāptaṃ // śrīsāṃbāya namaḥ // (f. 5v).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; some folios treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect the manuscript from insects.
- 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 4073 (UP 1000).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1000
- OCLC:
- 895003260
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