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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962593143503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/889885330
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6259314

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Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation and is a Hindu philosophical treatise in the style of the late Vedic upaniṣads, but written in the medieval period. Part of what is known as the Yoga upaniṣads and influenced by the Saṃkhyā and Vedānta, as well as Śakta, philosophical traditions. Work expounds on the universal notion of the brahman and its relationship to the self (ātman).

Notes

• Title from marginal abbreviations.
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents added in red throughout; vertical margins marked with triple red line; border on front cover in double and triple red lines.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Yoga
• Self (Philosophy)
• Ātman
• Brahman
• Vedanta
• Sankhya
• Shaktism
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

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

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