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Title

Authors

• Śaṅkarācārya

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959998993503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/857167712
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5999899

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript used for public or private recitation, prayer, and contemplation. The title means: Garland of jewels in the form of questions and answers, and is written in poetic verse, but asks large 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. Contains a praise of teachers (gurus).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 4v); alternate title Praśnottararatnamālika from opening verse (f. 1r); second alternate title Praśnottaramālika from incipit (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Gurus

Genres

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

Licenses

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