Details

Standardized Title:

Upanishads. Māṇḍūkyopaniṣad

Subjects:

Vedas -- Recitation.
Vedas.
Om.
Consciousness -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Hindu mantras.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study and recitation and is a late Vedic philosophical treatise employing primarily Hindu mantras (words or phrases of power), especially the mantra Oṃ. The work outlines four states of consciousness (awake, dreaming, sleeping, and transcendent).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti māṃḍūkyopaniṣat samāptaṃ // (f. 2v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line; 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 710 (UP 871).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 871

OCLC:

884917941