Bhṛguvallī, circa 1700-1850; भृगुवल्ली,१७००-१८५०

Date:

1700

Description:

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation and is a late Vedic philosophical treatise that expounds upon the nature of various beings (especially deities, the individual self, and others) and their relationship to the ultimate, highest status of Being in the universe. Explores themes such as the importance of food through a narrative about the figure Bhṛgu and his father.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Self (Philosophy); Food -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism; Hindu philosophy; Philosophy, Indic

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Treatises; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 item (4 leaves) : paper; 13 x 28 cm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 4v).; Written in 9 lines per leaf.; 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: iti bhṛguvallīsamāptaṃ //; Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line; metrical accents added in red throughout.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 873

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts