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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962527133503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/887855905
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6252713

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Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation, and is a kind of Hindu philosophical treatise, but used also in a prayer or ritual context, especially for Vaiṣṇavites, derived from the Athārvaveda and comprised, in part, of Vedic mantras; though written in the style of a late Vedic upaniṣad, may have been written in the post-Vedic period.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1702 (1645) (f. 2v).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   

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Subjects topical

• Hindu mantras--Early works to 1800
• Hindu philosophy--Early works to 1800
• Philosophy, Indic--Early works to 1800
• Vaishnavism--Early works to 1800
• Rites and ceremonies--India--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Treatises
• Prayers
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--17th century
• Manuscripts--India--17th century

Licenses

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