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Title

Authors

• Śaṅkarācārya

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959370143503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/838124310
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5937014

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript used for contemplation and study and consists of a philosophical discussion presented in the form of a praise of the Hindu deity Śiva along with a commentary. Likely a late medieval adaptation of Advaitavedānta philosophy in a Śaiva context.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 18v).
   
• Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 18 leaves foliated 1-18, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1779 (1857) (f. 18v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with triple red line on front folio (f. 1v).
   
• European stock of paper with watermark, a crest with a figure seated on a throne holding a staff and plant.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hinduism--Prayers and devotions
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Hindu philosophy
• Vedanta
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Śaivism

Genres

• Commentaries
• Treatises
• Hymns
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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