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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962758713503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/891661509
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6275871

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Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a quasi-philosophical Vedic treatise promoting the Sun (Sūrya) as one of the highest beings in the universe and the only deity visible to the naked eye; commonly employed in rites and ceremonies and morning prayer. Verses likely drawn from the Atharva Veda.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 3v); alternate title Sūryopaniṣad supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1678 (1756) (f. 3v).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Sun worship--India--Early works to 1800
• Rites and ceremonies--India--Early works to 1800
• Hindu philosophy--Early works to 1800
• Philosophy, Indic--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

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