Details

Subjects:

Vedas -- Recitation.
Vedas.
Brahman.
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 about the importance of knowledge about the brahman, the underlying source or power of the universe.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 5v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
6 leaves foliated 1-5, [i], upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti brahmavidopaniṣadaṃ samāptaṃ // (f. 5v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents added 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 690 (UP 874).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 874

OCLC:

884918914