Details

Subjects:

Yoga.
Sankhya.
Shaktism.
Vedanta.
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 kind of medieval Hindu philosophical treatise written in the style of a late Vedic upaniṣad, but is part of a likely medieval group of 108 so-called Yoga upaniṣads, which were influenced by both Saṃkhyā and Vedānta schools of philosophy as well as Śaktaism.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 16v).
Written in 7-10 lines per leaf.
16 leaves foliated 1-16, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: oṃ yogaśikhopaniṣatsamāptā // (f. 16v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

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 752 (UP 916).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 916

OCLC:

888032346