Details

Other Title:

Dhyanabindūpaniṣad.

Subjects:

Meditation -- Hinduism.
Yoga.
Self (Philosophy).
Ātman.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation and may have been part of a group of five upaniṣads known as the Bindu upaniṣads, which are part of the so-called Yoga upaniṣads and deal with the topic of meditation; this group of works was written in the medieval period, not in the late Vedic period as other upaniṣads.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2v); alternate title Dhyanabindūpaniṣad (or Dhyanabindu upaniṣad) also from marginal abbreviation.
Written in 11 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti manaviśrāmopaniṣatsamāptaḥ // (f. 2v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse dividers in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.

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 804 (UP 861).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 861

OCLC:

883302832