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Title

Other related names

• Govinda Brahma (Son of Kaṇḍabhaṭṭa Brahma), scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962877093503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/893627701
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6287709

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and recitation and is a late Vedic work, a philosophical treatise that reinterprets the symbolic value of Hindu rites and rituals, pointing to an underlying continuum between the individual self (ātman) and the universe (brahman).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 9v).
   
• Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left verso; lower right verso foliated 17-25.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1846 (1789) based on date from Ms. Coll. 390, Item 999 (f. 8r), a later section of the same manuscript.
   
• Scribe is Govinda Brahma, the son of Kaṇḍabhaṭṭa Brahma, who resided in the Hindu pilgrimage center of Varāṇasī (Ms. Coll. 390, Item 999, f. 8r).
   
• Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents added in red throughout.
   
• Manuscript is part of a larger manuscript that also contained Ms. Coll. 390, Item 994, Item 995, Item 997, Item 998, and Item 999.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Self (Philosophy)--Early works to 1800
• Ātman--Early works to 1800
• Brahman--Early works to 1800
• Hindu philosophy--Early works to 1800
• Philosophy, Indic--Early works to 1800
• Rites and ceremonies--India--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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