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

Title

Authors

• Jñānamṛtapata

Other related names

• Govinda Brahma (Son of Khaṇḍabhaṭṭa Brahma), scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962533353503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/888077910
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6253335

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Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a medieval Hindu philosophical treatise and super-commentary on a commentary written by Śaṅkarācārya on the Taittirīyopaniṣad, exploring themes of the universal Self and its relationship to the underlying principles of existence such as the abstract concept of the brahman. Written from the perspective of the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 3r).
   
• Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Scribe is Govinda Brahma, son of Khaṇḍabhaṭṭa Brahma, of the Hindu pilgrimage center of Vārāṇasī, as named in Ms. Coll. 390, Item 914, but named in this manuscript only as Govinda (f. 3r).
   
• Dated saṃvat 1860 (1803) (f. 3r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic
• Vedanta
• Advaita

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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