Details

Subjects:

Vedas -- Recitation.
Vedas.
Yoga.
Self (Philosophy).
Ātman.
Brahman.
Vedanta.
Sankhya.
Shaktism.
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 Hindu philosophical treatise in the style of the late Vedic upaniṣads, but written in the medieval period. Part of what is known as the Yoga upaniṣads and influenced by the Saṃkhyā and Vedānta, as well as Śakta, philosophical traditions. Work expounds on the universal notion of the brahman and its relationship to the self (ātman).

Notes:

Title from marginal abbreviations.
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti ity upaniṣat // 9 // sahanāvavatu - oṃ śāt[ṃ]iḥ śāṃti śāṃtiḥ (f. 8v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents added in red throughout; vertical margins marked with triple red line; border on front cover in double and triple red lines.

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 695 (UP 954).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 954

OCLC:

889885327