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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