Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963243813503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/898565064
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6324381

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Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and recitation and is a post-Vedic upaniṣad, a philosophical treatise written in verse containing mantras and told through a narrative/mythological allegory, focusing on the centrality of the Hindu god Śiva as the highest principle in the universe and identifying him with the gods Viṣṇu, Brahmā, and Indra. The manuscript identifies itself as deriving from the Atharvaveda (f. 4v).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 4v).
   
• Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out or crossed out.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Śaivism
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Indra (Hindu deity)
• Brahmā (Hindu deity)
• Hindu mantras
• Hindu mythology
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

• Treatises
• Poems
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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