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

Title

Other related names

• Kāśyāṇḍeṅkare Māhādeva, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963595033503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/904022259
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6359503

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Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation, and is a late Vedic work that addresses early philosophical concepts of the Self (ātman) and poses a series of questions (praśna) and answers between students and their teacher. In the process the work addresses and offers an interpretation of early social and ritual action.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 7v).
   
• Written in 10 lines per leaf.
   
• 7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Scribe is Kāśyāṇḍeṅkare Māhādeva (f. 7v).
   
• 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.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hinduism--Examinations, questions, etc
• Self (Philosophy)
• Ātman
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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