Kaupīnapañcaka, circa 1700-1850; कौपीनपञ्चक,१७००-१८५०

Contributor:

Śaṅkarācārya (attributed name)

Date:

1700

Description:

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.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Asceticism -- Hinduism; Advaita; Vedanta; Hindu philosophy; Philosophy, Indic

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Treatises; Poems; Watermarks; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 item (1 leaves) : paper; 11 x 15 cm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Attributed to Śaṅkarācārya, but more likely written by one of his followers.; 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.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts