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Title

Authors

• Śaṅkarācārya

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963242703503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/898494632
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6324270

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript was used for contemplation and study and is a short Hindu philosophical treatise written from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedanta school of philosophy. The work deals especially with issues of the traditional caste system and purity.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 5v).
   
• Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1754 (1832) (f. 5v).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; corrections and additions in margins.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Caste--India--Philosophy
• Caste--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Advaita
• Vedanta
• Indian philosophy
• Hindu philosophy

Genres

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

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