Details

Standardized Title:

Upanishads. Br̥hadāraṇyakopaniṣad

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is an addition and subsection of a larger Brahmana dedicated to the performance and interpretation of ancient Vedic rites and ceremonies.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 79v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
62 leaves foliated 1-43, 61-79, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti bṛhadāraṇyakeṣaṣṭhodhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 79v).
Dated saṃvat 1937 and śaka 1802 (1880) (f. 79v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents in red throughout first half of manuscripts.

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 673 (UP 722).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 722

OCLC:

880450461