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

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• bibid: 9962763433503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/891722141
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6276343

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Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation and is an early Hindu philosophical treatise on the nature of the ultimate principle of the brahman. The treatise is given as the teachings of six teachers (ṣaḍācārya) presented to the mythological king Janaka of Videha.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 7r).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; metrical accents added in red throughout.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Brahman
• Hindu mythology
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

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

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