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Title

Other related names

• Govinda Brahma (Son of Kaṇḍabhaṭṭa Brahma), scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962877533503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/893628970
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6287753

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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). Small table at the end of the manuscript (f. 8r).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 8v).
   
• Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left verso; lower right verso foliated 39-46.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1846 (1789) (f. 8r).
   
• Scribe is Govinda Brahma, the son of Kaṇḍabhaṭṭa Brahma who resided in the Hindu pilgrimage center of Varāṇasī (f. 8r).
   
• Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, and phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   
• Manuscript is part of a larger manuscript that also contained Ms. Coll. 390, Item 994, Item 995, Item 996, Item 997, and Item 998.
   

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
• Tables (documents)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

Licenses

• Text

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