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

Title

Authors

• Bādarāyaṇa

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962430993503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/884921159

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a treatise typically aligned with Vedānta (end of the Veda) and its associated philosophy. It is a foundational work that was highly influential on Hindu philosophy from the early medieval period and especially on later medieval thinkers and beyond. Particular concern is given to the nature of the highest reality or absolute, the brahman.

Notes

• Title from colophon abbreviations throughout.
   
• Written in 9-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 14 leaves foliated 1-13, [i] 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 or written in red throughout.
   
• Watermarks on European style paper, image of three circles on top of one another, one bearing a moon, the second of what could be an elephant, the third is unclear; the circles have a Christian cross on top of them.
   

Extent

Support

Subjects topical

• Brahman
• Vedanta
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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