Vivaraṇatattvadīpaṇa. Varṇaka 5, circa 1700-1850.
विवरणतत्त्वदीपण. वर्णक ५,

Format:

• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Akhaṇḍānanda, Muni

Contributor:

• Aditya Bahadur Dinha, Mahārāja, former owner.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Advaita.
• Vedanta.
• Hindu philosophy.
• Philosophy, Indic.

Genre:

• commentaries
• treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
• Manuscripts.

Penn Provenance:

• Formerly owned by H.H. Maharaja Aditya Bahadur Dinha, L.C.S.I, who lived in Ramnagar (a district of the well known Hindu pilgrimage center of Varāṇasī) (from particle board supporting Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1021, at the time of sale).

Physical Description:

1 item (21 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 28 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1022

Place of Publication:

• circa 1700-1850.
• १७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise and super-commentary written from the perspective of, and reflecting on the doctrine of, the Vivaraṇa branch of the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy, which seeks to explain the root cause of ignorance (avidyā).

Notes:

• Title from colophon (f. 21r).
• Written in 13 lines per leaf.
• 21 leaves foliated 1-21, lower right verso, second foliation from place in larger manuscript foliated 295-315, upper left verso, in original and second scribal hand.
• Colophon: iti śrīparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryākhaṇḍānubhūtipūjyapā[da]śiṣyeṇākha[ṇ]ḍo 'naṃdamuninā viracite vivaraṇatattvadīpane dvitīpaṃ sūtraṃ samāptam // (f. 21r).
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins, some of it in a second scribal hand; some significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
• Manuscript was part of a larger work that included Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1018, Item 1019, Item 1020, Item 1021, Item 1023, Item 1024, and Item 1025.

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 3959 (UP 1022).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1022

OCLC:

895054152