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

Title

Authors

• Bādarāyaṇa

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962294643503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/881829845
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6229464

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Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a treatise on Indian philosophy from the Vedānta school. It is a foundational work for this branch of Hindu philosophy from the early medieval period and was highly influential on later medieval thinkers and beyond. Particular concern is given to the nature of the highest reality or absolute, the brahman.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 15 leaves foliated 1-15, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   

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Support

Subjects topical

• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic
• Vedanta
• Brahman

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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