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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963181613503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/897953013
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6318161

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Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation, and is an early Hindu philosophical treatise that draws mantras and verses from the Atharvaveda in order to promote various Vedic deities, especially Rudra, a Vedic god known as the Howler, who later became identified with the Hindu deity Śiva.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 9r); alternate title Atharvaśiropaniṣad supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 6-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 9 leaves foliated [1], 2-9, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; a number of corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   

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Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Rudra (Hindu deity)
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Hindu mantras
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

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

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