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Title

Authors

• Śaṅkarācārya

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962531953503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/888060386
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6253195

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Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise and commentary on the Aitareyopaniṣad, a late Vedic Upaniṣad typically appended to the Ṛgveda dealing with speculations about the nature of being, the self, birth, and breath; early myths; text followed by selection of Vedic mantras.

Notes

• Title from marginal abbreviations and internal colophon (f. 18v).
   
• Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 23 leaves foliated 1-12, 12-22, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Internal colophon: iti śrīmadgoviṃdabhagavatpūjyapādaśiṣyaparamahaṃsaparivrIjekācāryasya śrīśaṃkarabhagavataḥ [ṛtaubakṛca] brahmaṇopaniṣadbhāṣyaṃ samāptaṃ // samāptaḥ ṣaṣṭo 'dhyāyaḥ // (f. 21v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with quadruple red line; manuscript written in two or more different scribal hands.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

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Support

Subjects topical

• Hindu philosophy--Early works to 1800
• Philosophy, Indic--Early works to 1800
• Vedic literature--Early works to 1800
• Self (Philosophy)--Early works to 1800
• Hindu mythology--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

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