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

Title

Authors

• Rāmadāra

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959839733503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/854580018
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5983973

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript used for contemplation and study and is a late medieval philosophical work expounding on the nature of being and the supremacy of the Hindu deity Viṣṇu from a Vedanta perspective.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f.33v).
   
• Written in 8-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 34 leaves foliated 1-33, [34], upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1803 (1881) (f. 33v).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some phrases highlighted in red.
   
• Indian stock of paper with several watermarks: one depicts a crown over an oval inside of which is an elephant; another has a schooner or some other kind of tall ship along with the date 1880; the name Byramji Shapoorji appears on several folios; another has the word London as part of a longer company name, which is indistinguishable.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Indian philosophy
• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Vedanta

Genres

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

Licenses

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