Stotras and other Sanskrit texts.
Description
- Language(s)
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Sanskrit
- Published
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[Place of production not identified] : [Producer not identified], [between 1700 and 1850?]
- Summary
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17 Stotras (hymns), mainly by Śaṅkarācārya, and passages from various different religious texts, including Kenopaniṣad. The latter is used for contemplation, study, and recitation, and is a philosophical work dedicated to asking questions about the nature of the universe, human perception of it, and the highest realities therein. The Kena Upanishad (or Kenopaniṣad) is a Vedic Sanskrit text classified as one of the primary or Mukhya Upanishads that is embedded inside the last section of the Talavakara Brahmanam of the Samaveda. It is listed as number 2 in the Muktikā, the canon of the 108 Upanishads of Hinduism. Śaṅkarācārya. wrote many commentaries on Kenopaniṣad.
- Note
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Written in red and black with saffron borders, some red word divisions,
Numbered in Devanagari on upper left margins.
With 18 full page color miniatures (aquatints). Each leaf framed in single broad saffron line between ruled thin black and orange parallel lines.
Written in red and black with saffron on "parchment-like Persian paper," according to donor Dr. Casey Wood's note accompanying donation. Some word divisions in red
Written in 4 lines per leaf (beginning of chapters sometimes 2 or 3 lines per page or leaf)
Bound Illuminated manuscripts.
Title supplied by cataloguer.
- Physical Description
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242 leaves, 2 unnumbered leaves :
paper, ink, manuscript, color illuminations ;
101 x 147 mm (12mo)
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