Pañcaprakaraṇa, 1881
पञ्चप्रकरण, १८८१

Description
Manuscript used for contemplation and study and is a late medieval philosophical work expounding on the nature of being and the supremacy of the Hindu deity Viṣṇu from a Vedanta perspective.
Creator
Rāmadāra
Form
manuscripts (documents)
treatises
Manuscripts, Sanskrit
Date
1881
Language
Sanskrit
Subject
Indian philosophy
Vishnu (Hindu deity)
Vedanta
Collection
Collection of Indic Manuscripts
Extent
1 item (34 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 17 cm
Notes
Author also known as Icchārāmasvāmin.
Title from colophon (f.33v).
Written in 8-11 lines per leaf.
34 leaves foliated 1-33, [34], upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmadrāmadāraviracitāpaṃcaprakaraṇīsamāptāḥ // satyaṃ jñānam anaṃtam ekam ajaraṃ vibhuḥ // guruśuśrūṣayājñānaṃ vinābhyāsena jāyate saparam ābhāni bhakṣaṃti yathā 'nyeṃvarasaṃginaḥ //2// (f. 33v).
Dated śaka 1803 (1881) (f. 33v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some phrases highlighted in red.
Indian stock of paper with several watermarks: one depicts a crown over an oval inside of which is an elephant; another has a schooner or some other kind of tall ship along with the date 1880; the name Byramji Shapoorji appears on several folios; another has the word London as part of a longer company name, which is indistinguishable.
In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
Related works
Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3rr9t
Also listed in
Penn Libraries Catalog
Physical Location
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 543
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Resource Type
Text

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