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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963181673503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/897954258
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6318167

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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 various Vedic sources in order to promote the Hindu deity Nārāyaṇa; this work purports to be a subsection of the Atharvaveda.

Notes

• Title from title abbreviation in margin (f. 1r); alternate title Mahānārāyaṇopaniṣad supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Nārāyaṇa (Hindu deity)
• Vaishnavism
• 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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