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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963187273503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/898034524
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6318727

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Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation and is a late Vedic philosophical treatise dedicated to the philosophy, rites, and sociological aspects associated with the Hindu deity Nārāyaṇa and containing mantras for the purpose of praising him.

Notes

• Title from marginal note (f. 30v); alternate title Mahānārāyaṇopaniṣad supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 30 leaves foliated 1-30, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins, some of which are written in a second scribal hand; metrical accents and some corrections written in red throughout.
   

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Subjects topical

• Nārāyaṇa (Hindu deity)
• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu mantras
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

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

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