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

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• bibid: 9963665363503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/904706170
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6366536

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Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation, and is a late Vedic philosophical treatise appended to the Ṛgveda; as a Upaniṣad, it contains speculations about the nature of being, the self, birth, and breath; also early myths. Contains a list of 16 verses after the end of the text written in portrait rather than landscape orientation (f. 3v).

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   

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Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

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