Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a treatise on Hindu philosophy from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy; it explores and analyzes the worldly experience of the senses and its inferiority to the experience or joy of the abstract principle of the brahman; work contains part of an extensive commentary called the Tātparyabodhinī by Rāmakṛṣṇa running parallel, above and below, the main root text.
Title from title page (f. 26r); commentary title Tātparyabodhinī supplied by cataloger; alternate commentary title Pañcadaśīprakāśikā supplied by cataloger.; Written in 17-21 lines per leaf.; 26 leaves foliated 2-26, even numbers only, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: iti śrīparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrībhāratītīrthavidyāraṇyamuniviracito brahmānaṃde viṣayānaṃdākhyaṃ paṃcamaprakaraṇaṃ samāptim agamat // (f. 26r).; Scribe is Dīnārtha (f. 26r).; Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line.; Watermarks with some kind of crest.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
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