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Title

Authors

• Śaṅkarācārya

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9974013993503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/970817312

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise, serving as sayings or maxims within the framework of Advaita Vedānta that poses a series of questions (praśna) and answers between students and their teacher.

Notes

• Title from explicit (f. 7v); alternate title from front of manuscript (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 5-6 lines per leaf.
   
• 7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1912 (1855) (f. 1r).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant phrases highlighted in red.
   

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Support

Subjects topical

• Hinduism--Examinations, questions, etc
• Maxims, Sanskrit
• Advaita
• Vedanta
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

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

Licenses

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