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Title

Authors

• Śaṅkarācārya

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963335063503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/900197662
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6333506

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript used for contemplation and study and is a philosophical treatise and summary of Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta doctrine, possibly derived from verses of the Atharvaveda, but typically attributed to Śaṅkarācārya.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 4r).
   
• Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 17-- and saṃvat 18--, with only the century number indicated, which establishes a date range of 1778-1842 for the manuscript.
   
• Mistakes covered in yellow or crossed out; corrections and addition in margins; verse numbers highlighted in red at beginning of text; one folio covered with yellow turmeric powder to help protect manuscript from insects (f. 3).
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

Licenses

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