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Title

Authors

• Śaṅkarācārya

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963758683503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/905607731
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6375868

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Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study. The first part is a short Hindu philosophical treatise summarizing the tenets of the Advaita (non-dual) branch of the Vedanta school; the second part is a late Vedic work that focuses on the centrality of the Vedic god Rudra, an early form of the Hindu deity Śiva and is important to the development of Śaivism.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 10-13 lines per leaf.
   
• 3 leaves foliated [1-3], lower right recto, in modern pencil.
   
• Internal colophon: iti laghuvākyavṛttiḥ samāptā // (f. 2r).
   
• Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   

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Support

Subjects topical

• Śaivism
• Rudra (Hindu deity)
• Advaita
• Vedanta
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

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

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