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

Title

Authors

• Bādarāyaṇa

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963703033503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/904999866
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6370303

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise that compiles and summarizes excerpts from more ancient upaniṣads. It is a foundational work for the Vedānta branch of philosophy and was highly influential on medieval thinkers and beyond. Particular concern is given to the nature of the highest reality or absolute, the brahman.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 33v).
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 34 leaves foliated 1-34, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some minor corrections and additions in margins; significant numbers, syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Brahman
• Vedanta
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

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

Licenses

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