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Kūṭasthadīpa, 1844.
कूटस्थदीप
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1038
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Mādhava, -1386.
- Standardized Title:
- Pañcadaśī. Selections
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Self (Philosophy).
- Advaita.
- Vedanta.
- Hindu philosophy.
- Philosophy, Indic.
- Genre:
- treatises
- commentaries
- watermarks
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Raṅganātha Marāṭhe, son of Mayūreśvara (colophon, Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1045, f. 3r).
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (7 leaves) : paper ; 14 x 32 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1038
- Place of Publication:
- 1844.
- १८४४.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a treatise on Hindu philosophy whose title is translated as Light on the unchangeable; discussion about unchangeability of the inner self, written from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy; work contains part of an extensive commentary called the Tātparyabodhinī by Rāmakṛṣṇa running parallel, above and below, the main root text.
- Notes:
- Title from marginal abbreviation; commentary title Tātparyabodhinī supplied by cataloger; alternate commentary title Pañcadaśīprakāśikā supplied by cataloger.
- Written in 12-14 lines per leaf.
- 7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left verso.
- Colophon: iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrībhāratitīrthavidyāraṇyamunivarya kiṃ kare[ṇa] - // (f. 7r).
- Manuscript was originally part of a larger, single work along with Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1034, Item 1035, Item 1036, Item 1037, Item 1039, Item 1040, Item 1041, Item 1042, Item 1043, Item 1044, and Item 1045.
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
- Watermarks on all folios including a horse, various parts of words and letters.
- Dated śaka 1766 (1844) (Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1045, f. 3r).
- Scribe is Nārāyaṇa (Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1035, f. 3r).
- 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 3985 (UP 1038).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1038
- Contains:
- Rāmakr̥ṣṇa. Tātparyabodhinī.
- Rāmakr̥ṣṇa. Pañcadaśīprakāśikā.
- OCLC:
- 897831133
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