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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962430263503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/884918677
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6243026

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Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation and is a late Vedic philosophical treatise that expounds upon the nature of various beings (especially deities, the individual self, and others) and their relationship to the ultimate, highest status of Being in the universe. Explores themes such as the importance of food through a narrative about the figure Bhṛgu and his father.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 4v).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line; metrical accents added in red throughout.
   

Extent

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Self (Philosophy)
• Food--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

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

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