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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962426963503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/884884703
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6242696

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Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation and is a medieval philosophical treatise and ritual text designed to help purify and prepare the mind and body for attaining ultimate realization of the self and its relationship to the highest reality. Though given the name of Upaniṣad, not part of the corpus of late Vedic works of this genre.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 5v).
   
• Written in 1-5 lines per leaf.
   
• 5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   

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Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Purity, Ritual--Hinduism
• Self (Philosophy)
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic
• Rites and ceremonies--India

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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