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Title

Authors

• Śaṅkarānanda, active 1290

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962430133503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/884918402
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6243013

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Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise and commentary, reflecting on the Māṇḍūkyopaniṣad, a late Vedic text that focuses Hindu mantras (words or phrases of power), especially the mantra Oṃ, while also outlining four states of consciousness (awake, dreaming, sleeping, and transcendent).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 2v).
   
• Written in 13-16 lines per leaf.
   
• 5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Om
• Consciousness--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Hindu mantras
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

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

Licenses

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