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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962533383503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/888078135
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6253338

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Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, recitation, and prayer, and is a quasi-philosophical, post-Vedic work, styled after a traditional upaniṣad. The work glorifies and compares the Hindu epic hero Rāma to the ultimate principles and highest realities in the universe and draws from the mythology of the Rāmāyaṇa.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 13r); alternate title Rāmatāpanīyopaniṣad.
   
• Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 13 leaves foliated 1-13, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   

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Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Rāma (Hindu deity)
• Hindu mythology
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Genres

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

Licenses

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