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Bhūtaviveka, 1786.
भूतविवेक
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1051
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Mādhava, -1386.
- Standardized Title:
- Pañcadaśī. Selections
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, Indic.
- Hindu philosophy.
- Matter--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Matter--Religious aspects--Hinduism--Early works to 1800.
- Advaita--Early works to 1800.
- Advaita.
- Vedanta--Early works to 1800.
- Vedanta.
- Hindu philosophy--Early works to 1800.
- Philosophy, Indic--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- treatises
- commentaries
- Manuscripts.
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (21 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 32 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1051
- Place of Publication:
- 1786.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a treatise on Hindu philosophy from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy; it explores and analyzes the nature of the five elements (ether, air, fire, water and earth) and how they may be differentiated from the ultimate principle in the universe, the brahman; work contains part of an extensive commentary called the Tātparyabodhinī by Rāmakṛṣṇa running parallel, above and below, the main root text.
- Notes:
- Title from title page (f. 21r); commentary title Tātparyabodhinī supplied by cataloger; alternate commentary title Pañcadaśīprakāśikā supplied by cataloger.
- Written in 5-9 lines per leaf.
- 21 leaves foliated 1-21, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti bhūtavivekaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 21r).
- Manuscript was formerly part of a larger manuscript that was copied by two or three scribal hands and includes Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1046, Item 1047, Item 1048, Item 1049, and Item 1050.
- Dated saṃvat 1843 (1786) (Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1050, f. 7v).
- Scribe is Bhaguvāsara (Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1050, f. 7r).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some symbols, numbers, words, and phrases highlighted in red.
- 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 4043 (UP 1051).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1051
- Contains:
- Rāmakr̥ṣṇa. Tātparyabodhinī.
- Rāmakr̥ṣṇa. Pañcadaśīprakāśikā.
- OCLC:
- 897837721
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