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Kaupīnapañcaka, circa 1700-1850.
कौपीनपञ्चक
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2456
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Śaṅkarācārya, attributed name.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Asceticism--Hinduism.
- Asceticism.
- Advaita.
- Vedanta.
- Hindu philosophy.
- Philosophy, Indic.
- Genre:
- treatises
- poems
- watermarks
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (1 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 15 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2456
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Biography/History:
- Attributed to Śaṅkarācārya, but more likely written by one of his followers.
- Summary:
- Text celebrating the blessings associated with being a renunciant ascetic (sāṃnyāsin), such as being blessed for wearing a loin cloth (kaupīna); work extols the virtues of the Vedānta philosophy of Śaṅkarācārya, to whom the work is attributed.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 1r).
- Written in 11 lines per leaf.
- 1 leaf.
- Colophon: iti śaṃkarācāryaviracitaṃ kaupInapaṃcakaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // (f. 1r).
- Watermark of a partial coat of arms.
- Mistakes covered in yellow; significant 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 1762 (UP 2456).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2456.
- OCLC:
- 968131422
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