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

Title

Authors

• Śaṅkarācārya

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962592103503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/889875799
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6259210

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript whose title translates as the Knowledge-boat, is used for contemplation, study, and recitation, and is a short, abbreviated Hindu philosophical treatise intended to give the essential aspects of the Advaita (non-dual) school of philosophy. Though the work is attributed to Śaṅkarācārya (f. 1v), it way well have been written by one of his followers.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 1v).
   
• Written in 13 lines total.
   
• 1 leaf.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Advaita
• Vedanta
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

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

Licenses

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