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Title

Authors

• Gauḍapāda Ācārya

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963243033503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/898498526
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6324303

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation 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 one of the earliest works to promote the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy, and predates the works of Śaṅkarācārya.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 4v); alternate title Māṇḍūkyopaniṣatkārikā supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered in white-pink paste or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Poems
• Prayers
• Commentaries
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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