Details

Subjects:

Self (Philosophy).
Advaita.
Vedanta.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Facsimiles.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Bengali)

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Summary:

Philosophical treatise titled Knowledge of the Self, a summary of Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta doctrine, typically attributed to Śaṅkarācārya, although likely written by one of his followers.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Comilla, Bangladesh Rāmamālā Library, Mahesh Charitable Trust
Written in 5 lines per folio.
6 leaves foliated 1-6, middle right verso; photo of 3 recto is missing; there are two photos of a cover made from particle board.
Title from colophon (f. 6v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; paper treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect from insects.
Dimensions of original manuscript: 9 x 36 cm.
Reproduced from the original with permission of the Mahesh Charitable Trust under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.

OCLC:

914300510