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Pratyaktatvaviveka, 1700-1850.
प्रत्यक्तत्वविवेक
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1079
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Mādhava, -1386.
- Standardized Title:
- Pañcadaśī. Selections
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Advaita.
- Vedanta.
- Hindu philosophy.
- Philosophy, Indic.
- Genre:
- treatises
- commentaries
- watermarks
- drawings (visual works)
- Manuscripts, India.
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (12 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 31 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1079
- Place of Publication:
- 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī).
- Summary:
- Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise, part of a work called the Fifteen chapters (Pañcadaśī) that focuses on different expressions of ultimate reality (being, consciousness, and bliss) and is drawn from the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy. Manuscript also contains an extensive commentary, the Tattvavivekaprakaraṇa, by Rāmakṛṣṇa, running above and below the root text.
- Notes:
- Title from incipit (f. 1v); commentary title Tātparyabodhinī supplied by cataloger; alternate commentary titles Pañcadaśīprakāśikā and Tattvavivekaprakaraṇa supplied by cataloger.
- Written in 11-13 lines per leaf.
- 12 leaves foliated 1-12, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti tattvavivekaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 12r).
- Manuscript was formerly part of a larger manuscript that includes Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1080, Item 1081, Item 1082, Item 1083, and Item 1084.
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line; title page has decorative border drawn free-hand in red ink around the title (f. 1r).
- Watermarks of a floral crest as well as another with initials, possibly, M.C.
- 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 3998 (UP 1079).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1079.
- Contains:
- Rāmakr̥ṣṇa. Tātparyabodhinī.
- Rāmakr̥ṣṇa. Pañcadaśīprakāśikā.
- Rāmakr̥ṣṇa. Tattvavivekaprakaraṇa.
- OCLC:
- 900093054
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