Details

Standardized Title:

Upanishads. Taittirīyopaniṣad. Selections.

Other Title:

Śikṣābrahmavidābhṛgu.

Subjects:

Self (Philosophy).
Hindu mantras.
Ātman.
Brahman.
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 also containing numerous mantras meant to be recited during meditation, as well as early mythology introducing some early ideas about the makeup and composition of the universe (such notions about the cycle of life and death). The work reinterprets the symbolic value of Hindu rites and rituals and points to an underlying continuum between the individual self (ātman) and the universe (brahman).

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger; alternate title Śikṣābrahmavidābhṛgu from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents added 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 369 (UP 849).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 849

OCLC:

883243121