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

Title

Authors

• Śaṅkarācārya

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963505763503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/903125136

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and recitation and is a Hindu philosophical treatise and commentary from the perspective of Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy. The manuscript is a commentary on a late Vedic work, the Īśopaniṣad, and is also a poem, employing Hindu mantras and exploring the meaning and nature of the highest disembodied Lord, referred to as Īśvara; an unidentified super-commentary runs horizontally above and below the main text.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 15r).
   
• Written in 12-15 lines per leaf.
   
• 15 leaves foliated 1-15, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line. Some folios are treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect the manuscript from insects.
   
• Manuscript is written by the same hand as Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1153.
   
• Manuscript has paper cover comprised of newsprint and note paper with various notes and printed texts on outer and inner parts.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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