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

Title

Other related names

• Ācāryapremjī, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963188143503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/898036484
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6318814

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Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and recitation and is a late Vedic work, a philosophical treatise that reinterprets the symbolic value of Hindu rites and rituals, but points especially to the centrality of the Vedic god Rudra, an early form of the Hindu deity Śiva, within the constructed universe. This work includes some of the earliest examples of mythology related to Śaivism.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 14r).
   
• Written in 8 lines per leaf.
   
• 14 leaves foliated 1-14, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered in yellow or crossed out; some additions and corrections in margins; significant symbols, words, and phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with a double red line.
   
• Scribe is Ācāryapremjī (f. 14r).
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Śaivism--Early works to 1800
• Rudra (Hindu deity)--Early works to 1800
• Siva (Hindu deity)--Early works to 1800
• Hindu philosophy--Early works to 1800
• Philosophy, Indic--Early works to 1800
• Rites and ceremonies--India--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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