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Title

Authors

• Śaṅkarācārya

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963242553503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/898493856
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6324255

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical commentary on the Muṇḍakopaniṣad, a late Vedic work that is comprised of verse and mantras (words and phrases of power) that are used in meditation and ritual, for unlocking the secrets of higher knowledge, especially knowledge of the Self (ātman). Commentary is written from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 5v).
   
• Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 27 leaves foliated 1-27, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant symbols, words, and phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu mantras--Early works to 1800
• Rites and ceremonies--India--Early works to 1800
• Self (Philosophy)--Early works to 1800
• Ātman--Early works to 1800
• Advaita--Early works to 1800
• Vedanta--Early works to 1800
• Hindu philosophy--Early works to 1800
• Philosophy, Indic--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Poems
• Prayers
• Commentaries
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--17th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--17th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

Licenses

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