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

Title

Other related names

• Kalaṅkara Keśava, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962344263503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/883244092
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6234426

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Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study and recitation, and is a Hindu or Late Vedic philosophical treatise presented as a dialogue between a father Vājraśrava, and his son Niciketas; the work addresses early concepts of the Self (ātman), as well as addressing and offering interpretation of early social and ritual action.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Scribe is Kalaṅkara Keśava (f. 10v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Ātman
• Self (Philosophy)
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

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

Licenses

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