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

Title

Authors

• Śaṅkarācārya
• Śaṅkarācārya

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963334883503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/900197167
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6333488

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript used for contemplation and study and is a philosophical commentary (ṭīkā) on a work known as the Ātmabhoda, Knowledge of the Self, a summary of Vedānta doctrine, possibly derived from verses of the Atharvaveda, but often attributed to Śaṅkarācārya himself. The commentary is written from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy and is written parallel to, above and below, the root text.

Notes

• Title of commentary from colophon (f. 13v); title of root text assigned by cataloger.
   
• Written in 8-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 13 leaves foliated 1-13, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered in yellow or crossed out; corrections and addition in margins; significant phrases highlighted in red at beginning of text.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Self (Philosophy)
• Advaita
• Vedanta
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

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

Licenses

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