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Title

Authors

• Śaṅkarānanda, active 1290

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962593313503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/889886216
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6259331

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Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise and commentary (dīpikā) written from the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy, about the Kaivalyopaniṣad, a post-Vedic upaniṣad written in verse, containing mantras, and told through a narrative/mythological allegory, focusing on the centrality of the Hindu god Śiva as the highest principle in the universe and identifying him with other gods as well.

Notes

• Title from marginal abbreviations.
   
• Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 16 leaves foliated 1-16, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered with yellow or crossed out, some additions and corrections written in margins; vertical margins indicated with double red line.
   

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Subjects topical

• Śaivism
• Hindu mantras
• Advaita
• Vedanta
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Hindu mythology
• Philosophy, Indic
• Hindu philosophy

Genres

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

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