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

Title

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963597893503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/904025722
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6359789

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Summary

Manuscript is used for study, reference, and recitation, and is a manual or guide as well as a work of prayer and praise, illuminating the benefits and methods for application of sandalwood paste (candana) and the Hindu deity Viṣṇu. Sandalwood paste is applied to the forehead to create a mark called tilak. These marks often indicate a religious affiliation to a particular deity, in this case, Viṣṇu. This work is considered one of the late, medieval upaniṣads, but contains verses and phrasing drawn from older Vedic sources and has a quasi-philosophical tone.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 1v).
   
• Written in 21 lines per leaf.
   
• 1 leaf.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Tilaks
• Body marking--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Hinduism
• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Vaishnavism
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

• Treatises
• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Prayers
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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