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

Title

Other related names

• Madyājñika Devakṛṣṇa, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962103473503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/880424285
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6210347

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Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation and is a philosophical work, written in the style of an ancient Upaniṣad, but dedicated to the medieval figure, the elephant-headed Hindu deity Gaṇeśa. The work relates the deity Gaṇeśa with the highest principles of the universe.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 5r).
   
• Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
   
• 5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Madyājñika Devakṛṣṇa.
   

Subjects topical

• Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity)
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic
• Vedanta

Genres

• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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