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

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• bibid: 9962255673503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/881505840
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6225567

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Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation, and is a poetic work and philosophical interpretation of devotional traditions associated with the Hindu deity Viṣṇu, defining three different kinds of devotees, prakṛtas, madhyamas, and mahābhaktas, representing lower and higher forms of worship respectively. Manuscript has an extensive commentary (vyākhyā) running parallel, above and below the main text.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 19[b] recto); title of commentary, Bhagavadbhakticandrikollāsavyākhyā, from commentary colophon (f. 19[b] recto).
   
• Written in 11-18 lines per leaf.
   
• 16 leaves foliated 1-8, 16-20, 2, 18-19, upper left and lower right verso; two sets of numbers are written sporadically throughout the manuscript.
   
• Commentary colophon: iti bhagavadbhakticandrikollāsavyākhyāyāṃ premālaṃva[m]aprakāśastṛtīya[sāṃpūrṇaḥ] // (f. 19[b] recto).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow, red, or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line; some additions written in a second scribal hand.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Bhakti--Early works to 1800
• Hindu philosophy--Early works to 1800
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit--Early works to 1800
• Vishnu (Hindu deity)--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Commentaries
• Poems
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--17th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--17th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

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