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

Title

Authors

• Sureśvarācārya

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962533313503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/888077275
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6253331

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for consultation and reference and is a glossary or lexicon and Hindu philosophical treatise regarding a variety of terms and concepts derived from the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy. The glossary is based on some of the upaniṣad commentaries of Sureśvara's teacher Śaṅkarācārya.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 40r).
   
• Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 40 leaves foliated 1-40, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red; several folios treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect the manuscript from insects.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Advaita
• Vedanta
• Sanskrit language--Lexicography
• Sanskrit language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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