Details

Standardized Title:

Upanishads. Chāndogyopaniṣad

Subjects:

Vedanta.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for contemplation and study and is an ancient kind of treatise, philosophical, and sociological study and interpretation of more ancient rites and ceremonies from the early Vedic period. Text is divided into ten rather than the usual eight sections.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 61v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
54 leaves foliated 1-38, 46-61, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti chāṃdogya upaniṣade daśamaḥ prapāṭakaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 61v).
Dated saṃvat 1936 (1880) (f. 61v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents in red throughout.

Cited in:

Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 566 (UP 721).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 721

OCLC:

880439978