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Title

Authors

• Śaṅkarācārya

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959891183503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/854878557
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5989118

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is treatise on the nature of the Self, from a Vedanta perspective. The Self is viewed as equivalent to the ultimate universal principal, the brahman. Opens with a praise of the guru as a liberator from saṃsāra.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 11r); alternate title Svātmanirūpana supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some folios treated with yellow turmeric powder.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Brahman
• Self (Philosophy)
• 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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