Details

Standardized Title:

Upanishads. Śvetāśvataropaniṣad

Subjects:

Śaivism.
Rudra (Hindu deity).
Siva (Hindu deity).
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 recitation and is a late Vedic work, a philosophical treatise that reinterprets the symbolic value of Hindu rites and rituals, but points especially to the centrality of the Vedic god Rudra, an early form of the Hindu deity Śiva, within the constructed universe. This work includes some of the earliest examples of mythology related to Śaivism.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 11-14 lines per leaf.
6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.
Few mistakes, crossed out.

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 786 (UP 848).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 848

OCLC:

883132471