Jīvanmuktiviveka, 1844.
जीवन्मुक्तिविवेक

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Mādhava, -1386.

Contributor:

Nārāyaṇa Sānā, scribe.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Mokṣa.

Salvation--Hinduism.

Salvation.

Vedanta.

Advaita.

Hindu philosophy.

Philosophy, Indic.

Genre:

treatises

watermarks

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (67 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 34 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1089

Place of Publication:

1844.

१८४४.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a philosophical treatise on the state of realization known as jīvanmukti, when a human being is released from this world (saṃsāra) while still living in it through the ideal of non-attachment; a kind of Hindu enlightenment or salvation, often referred to as mokṣa (release). Treatise is written from the perspective of the medieval Vedānta school of philosophy.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 66v).

Written in 9 lines per leaf.

67 leaves foliated 1-67, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrījīvanmuktivivekavidyāraṇyakṛtasamaptiṃ tat sadbrahmārpaṇam astu // (f. 66r).

Scribe is Nārāyaṇa Sānā (f. 66v).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.

Date śaka 1766 (1844) (f. 66v)

Watermarks bearing the date of 1841 as well as a crest containing a standing lion or mythical creature holding a scepter.

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 3979 (UP 1089).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1089

OCLC:

900197055