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Title

Other related names

• Śaktiyukta Vināyaka Sahasrabudhi, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962758673503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/891661212
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6275867

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Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and recitation and is a post-Vedic upaniṣad, a philosophical treatise written in verse containing mantras and told through a narrative/mythological allegory, focusing on the centrality of the Hindu god Śiva as the highest principle in the universe and identifying him with the gods Viṣṇu, Brahmā, and Indra.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 3v).
   
• Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
   
• Scribe is Śaktiyukta Vināyaka Sahasrabudhi (f. 3v).
   
• 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out or crossed out, some additions written in margins; some red wash dripped onto some folios (f. 2v-3r) as if manuscript was employed in a rite or ritual.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Śaivism
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Indra (Hindu deity)
• Brahmā (Hindu deity)
• Hindu mantras
• Hindu mythology
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

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

Licenses

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