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

Title

Authors

• Mahīdhara

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963568453503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/903654736
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6356845

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and recitation and is a late Vedic work, a philosophical treatise in verse employing Hindu mantras that explores the meaning and nature of the highest disembodied Lord, referred to as Īśvara. Work contains Mahīdhara's commentary, titled Īśopaniṣadbhāṣya.

Notes

• Title from incipit (f. 1v); commentary title Īśopaniṣadbhāṣya from marginal abbreviations.
   
• Written in 11 lines per leaf.
   
• 7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, or phrases, as well as verse dividers and metrical accents on the root text, highlighted in red.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu mantras
• Hindu gods
• 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

• Text

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