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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962905743503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/893979978
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6290574

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Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation, and is a late Vedic philosophical treatise appended to the Ṛgveda; as a Upaniṣad, it contains speculations about the nature of being, the self, birth, and breath; also early myths.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Ātmaṣaṭkopaniṣad supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and significant additions/commentary in margins in a second scribal hand; significant phrase highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double red lines and title page bordered with double red lines; European blue paper.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Self (Philosophy)
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic
• Hindu mythology

Genres

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

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