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Title

Authors

• Śaṅkarācārya

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963243783503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/898564780
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6324378

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript used for contemplation and study and is a short Hindu philosophical treatise and commentary on the Great saying (mahāvākya), particularly the phrase, You are that (tat tvam asi), often functioning as a mantra and derived from late Vedic upaniṣads. The work is written from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedanta school of philosophy.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 4v).
   
• Written in 13-14 lines per leaf.
   
• 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant words and phrases, as well as verse numbers highlighted in red.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu mantras
• Advaita
• Vedanta
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

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

Licenses

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