Pañcadaśī., circa 1700-1850
पञ्चदशी, १७००-१८५०
- Description
- Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise, 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.
- Creator
- Mādhava, -1386
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- commentaries
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit
- Date
- 1700
- Language
- Sanskrit
- Subject
- Philosophy, Indic
- Hindu philosophy
- Vedanta
- Advaita
- Collection
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts
- Extent
- 1 item (313 leaves) : paper ; 30 x 14 cm
- Notes
- Title from colophon (f. 4v, final folio of manuscript).
- Written in 7-13 lines per leaf.
- 313 leaves foliated 1-21, 1-18, 1-12, 1-16, 1-5, 1-48, 1-66, 1-14, 1-24, 1-6, 1-30, 1-16, 1-27, 1-6, 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryabhagavatpādapūjyaśaṃkarānaṃdaśiṣyena vidyāranyamunikṛtāpaṃcadaśaprakaraṇasamāpta // (f. 4v, final folio of manuscript).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with triple red line.
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Related Work: Rāmakr̥ṣṇa. Tattvavivekaprakaraṇa.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3p55dj0z
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 573
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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