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

Title

Authors

• Śaṅkarācārya

Other related names

• Mahādeva Pāla, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962431183503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/884921378

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript used for contemplation and study and is a treatise of Hindu philosophy written from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dual) Vedānta) school; the work explores ideas about the nature of the body in relationship to the highest realities of the universe, the self and its relationship to the brahman (underlying universal principle).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 13r-13v).
   
• Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 14 leaves foliated 1-13, [i], upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1721 (1799) (f. 13v).
   
• Scribe is Mahādeva Pāla (f. 13v).
   
• Watermarks on European style paper, consisting of a crest and some broken text.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Human body--Religious aspects--Hinduism--Early works to 1800
• Self (Philosophy)--Early works to 1800
• Brahman--Early works to 1800
• Advaita--Early works to 1800
• Vedanta--Early works to 1800
• Hindu philosophy--Early works to 1800
• Philosophy, Indic--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

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