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Title

Authors

• Abhinavanārāyaṇendrasarasvatī

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9970480893503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/953736768
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7048089

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise and commentary (bhāṣya) on the saṃdhyāvandana, early morning and evening hymns (recitation of Vedic mantras) and worship (of the Vedic goddess Saṃdhyā, a personification of Dawn or Twilight) and is an ancient Sanskrit liturgy from the Ṛgveda. Written from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 23r); alternate title Ṛgvedasaṃdhyāvandanamantrabhāṣya from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 23 leaves foliated 1-23, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; vertical margins marked with double red line on some folios.
   
• Watermarks of a coat of arms.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic
• Advaita
• Vedanta
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu goddesses

Genres

• Commentaries
• Watermarks
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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