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• bibid: 9963569403503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/903657565
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6356940

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Summary

Manuscript contains two upaniṣads. The first, Aitareyopaniṣad, 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. The second, Rāmatāpanīyopaniṣad, is a quasi-philosophical, post-Vedic work, styled after a traditional upaniṣad. The work glorifies and compares the Hindu epic hero Rāma to the ultimate principles and highest realities in the universe and draws from the mythology of the Rāmāyaṇa.

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• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 10-13 lines per leaf.
   
• 17 leaves foliated (Part 1) 1-3, (Part 2) 1-2, 4-15, 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 triple black line.
   

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Subjects topical

• Self (Philosophy)
• Rāma (Hindu deity)
• Hindu mythology
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Genres

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

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