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Title

Other related names

• Brahmānaṃdatīrtha, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963191593503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/898043182
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6319159

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Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study and recitation, and is a Hindu or late Vedic philosophical treatise presented as a dialogue between a father Vājraśrava, and his son Niciketas; the work addresses early concepts of the Self (ātman), as well as addressing and offering interpretation of early social and ritual action.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 16r).
   
• Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
   
• 16 leaves foliated 1-16, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins (f. 16v).
   
• Watermarks on some folios featuring some kind of emblem or crest, possibly incorporating a fleur-de-lis.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Brahmānaṃdatīrtha (f. 16v).
   

Subjects topical

• Ātman
• Self (Philosophy)
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

• Treatises
• Dialogues
• Watermarks
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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