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Title

Mahāvākyaratnāvalī
महावाक्यरत्नावली

Authors

• Upaniṣadbrahmayogi

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1116
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963426903503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/900884851
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6342690

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation, consultation, and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise and commentary, dealing with Vedānta and regarding the category of the upaniṣads collecting many expressions and sayings from a variety of different sources, especially late or medieval upaniṣads.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 52v).
   
• Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 53 leaves foliated 1-51, [i], 52, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1764 (1842) (f. [i] recto).
   
• Very few mistakes covered in yellow, crossed or blacked out; excessive ink smudging on a few folios (f. 5v-7r); vertical margins marked with double red line.
   
• Watermarks bearing the crest of Britannia.
   

Extent

1 item (53 leaves) : 11 x 20 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrīvāsudeveṃdrasarasvatīcaraṇakamalamakaraṃdatṛptasvāṃtarāmacaṃdreṃdragrathite śādyaṣṭottaraśatopaniṣatsārasaṃgrahabhūtāṣṭottarasahastramahāvākyaratnāvalī paripūrṇā hariḥ oṃ // (f. 51v).

Subjects topical

• Vedanta
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

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

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