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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962430483503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/884919667
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6243048

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Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and recitation and is a late Vedic work, a philosophical treatise though also a poetic work employing Hindu mantras that explores the meaning and nature of the highest disembodied Lord, referred to as Īśvara.

Notes

• Title from marginal abbreviations; alternate title Vājasaneyisaṃhitā from colophon (f. 2v).
   
• Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents added in red throughout.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu mantras
• Hindu gods
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

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

Licenses

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