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

Title

Authors

• Śuka Yantīndra

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9974003513503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/970693152
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7400351

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript used for public or private recitation, prayer, and contemplation. The title translated into English is Garland of jewels in the form of questions and answers. The work is written in poetic verse and asks religious and philosophical questions about the nature of the world and one's place in it; raises issues such as the cycle of life and death and one's ultimate release from it, especially if one recites the poem. Sometimes the text is attributed to Śaṅkarācārya.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 3v).
   
• Written in 10-11 lines.
   
• 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant phrases highlighted in red.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Genres

• Prayers (documents)
• Hymns (documents)
• Poems
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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