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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9976085993503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/974706118
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7608599

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Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a quasi-philosophical Vedic treatise promoting the Sun (Sūrya) as one of the highest beings in the universe and the only deity visible to the naked eye; commonly employed in rites and ceremonies and morning prayer. Verses likely drawn from the Atharvaveda. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 3v).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated 2-3, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents in red.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Sun worship--India
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

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

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