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

Title

Other related names

• Bhānu, scribe

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963566583503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/903650119

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Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation, and is a late Vedic philosophical treatise appended to the Ṛgveda; as a Upaniṣad, it contains speculations about the nature of being, the self, birth, and breath; also early myths. Commentary by Dāmodara running parallel above and below the root text.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 7r).
   
• Written in 8-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1917 and śaka 1782 (1860) based on Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1169 (f. 100r), written by the same scribe.
   
• Scribe is Bhānu (Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1165, f. 4r).
   
• Manuscript is written by the same scribe as Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1160, Item 1164, Item 1165, Item 1166, Item 1167, Item 1168, Item 1169, and Item 1172.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology
• Self (Philosophy)
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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