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Title

Authors

• Sureśvarācārya

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962427013503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/884885166
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6242701

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise written from the perspective of the Advaita Vedānta school of philosophy. The work is a super-commentary (vārttika) on the Pañcīkaraṇa by Śaṅkarācārya. Work describes the stages of cosmic evolution, the role of the mantra Oṃ, as well as the place of the Self and its realization within that process of evolution.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 8v).
   
• Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 9 leaves foliated [i], 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double purple line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu cosmology
• Hindu mantras
• Om
• Evolution--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Self (Philosophy)
• Advaita
• Vedanta
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

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

Licenses

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