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Title

Authors

• Śaṅkarācārya

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958038353503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/802826201
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5803835

Publisher

Language

Summary

Small manuscript to be used in private or public meditation or prayer is a hymn in praise of the highest philosophical principal, known as the Brahman, which is also referred to as saccitānanda ("existence, consciousness, and bliss") in the text. Attaining knowledge of this principal (brahmajñāna) is said to lead to release (mokṣa) from the cycle of life and death.

Notes

• Title colophon (f. 2v); alternate title Brahmanāmāvalīmālā from incipit (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 11-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated 1, [2], upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Brahman
• Mokṣa
• Hindu philosophy

Genres

• Hymns
• Prayers
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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