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

Title

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962595223503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/889890629
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6259522

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation, and is a late Vedic, quasi-philosophical work reflecting on the nature of the self in the realm of ultimate existence through the lens of a narrative about the adventures of the ancient sage Bhṛgu and his encounter and dialogue with his father Varuṇa, who equates the ultimate principle in the universe, the brahman, with food.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 4v); alternate title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 10 lines per leaf.
   
• 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1860 (1803) (f. 4v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents added with red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Food--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Varun̥a (Hindu deity)
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu mythology

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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