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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962528943503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/888035557
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6252894

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Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study and recitation, and is a Hindu or Late Vedic philosophical treatise presented as a dialogue between a father Vājraśrava, and his son Niciketas; the work addresses early concepts of the Self (ātman), as well as addressing and offering interpretation of early social and ritual action. Manuscript has some kind of brief commentary written in the margins of the first two folios (f. 1v-2r).

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and extensive additions in margins; some folios treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect the manuscript from insects.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Ātman
• Self (Philosophy)
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

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

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