Dear fellow denizens of the list, As I'm no expert on Vedānta, I'm having trouble contextualizing so-called Śānti Mantras (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanti_Mantras) as found in Vedāntic material. I'd be interested in good-quality philological studies on the subject. Can anyone recommend anything?
For context, I'm cataloging a library manuscript item which consists of these mantras, plus verses on lineage (*saṃpradāya*), very similar to this modern item on Internet Archive <https://archive.org/details/DashaShantiMantra/mode/2up>, or this somewhat older book also found there <https://ia803101.us.archive.org/13/items/dashshantimantraswithhindi/Dash%20Shanti%20Mantra.pdf>, and I was curious about how to go about ascribing individual mantras to source texts, or whether this is even the right way to think about it. It seems that at least some of the mantras do recur across Upaniṣads, at least as found in print editions, so maybe there is no definitive answer. But I'm curious to see what others have said. Kind regards, Tyler
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