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Title

Authors

• Akhaṇḍānanda, Muni

Other related names

• Aditya Bahadur Dinha, Mahārāja, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962992073503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/895035418
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6299207

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise and super-commentary written from the perspective of, and reflecting on the doctrine of, the Vivaraṇa branch of the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy, which seeks to explain the root cause of ignorance (avidyā).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 31r).
   
• Written in 13 lines per leaf.
   
• 31 leaves foliated 1-31, lower right verso, second foliation from place in larger manuscript foliated 264-294, upper left verso, in original and second scribal hand.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins, some of it in a second scribal hand; some significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   
• Manuscript was part of a larger work that included Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1018, Item 1019, Item 1020, Item 1022, Item 1023, Item 1024, and Item 1025.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Provenance

• Formerly owned by H.H. Maharaja Aditya Bahadur Dinha, L.C.S.I, who lived in Ramnagar (a district of the well known Hindu pilgrimage center of Varāṇasī) (from particle board supporting the manuscript at the time of sale).
   

Subjects topical

• Advaita
• Vedanta
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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