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Title

Authors

• Abhinavanārāyaṇendrasarasvatī

Other related names

• Gāḍagīla, Janārdana Koṇḍadeva, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962343813503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/883242567
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6234381

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Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise and super-commentary (vivaraṇa) on a commentary (bhāṣya) by the Advaita Vedānta philosopher Śaṅkarācārya. These commentarial works expound on the Praśnopaniṣad, a late Vedic work that addresses early concepts of the Self (ātman) and poses a series of questions (praśna) and answers between students and their teacher.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 32r).
   
• Written in 11-15 lines per leaf.
   
• 32 leaves foliated 1-32, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with quadruple red line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Janārdana Koṇḍadeva of the village of Gāḍagī in present day Jarakhand, India (f. 32r).
   

Subjects topical

• Hinduism--Examinations, questions, etc
• Self (Philosophy)
• Ātman
• Advaita
• Vedanta
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

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

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