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Title

Authors

• Śaṅkarācārya

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962994763503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/895058136
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/9962994763503681

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Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and recitation and is a Hindu philosophical treatise and commentary from the perspective of Advaita Vedānta school of philosophy. The manuscript is a commentary on a late Vedic work, the Īśopaniṣad, and is also a poem, employing Hindu mantras and exploring the meaning and nature of the highest disembodied Lord, referred to as Īśvara; there is an unidentified super-commentary, running horizontally, above and below the main text.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 11-14 lines per leaf.
   
• 18 leaves foliated 1-18, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant words, characters, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Advaita
• Vedanta
• 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

• Text

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