Details

Subjects:

Vedas -- Recitation.
Vedas.
Self (Philosophy).
Hindu mantras.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Tables of contents.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation, and is a collection of three early upaniṣads; these are late Vedic, philosophical treatises employed to help reinforce and instill ideas and concepts about the makeup of the universe. Such ideas and teachings typically went beyond tradition Vedic training that focused on the performance of and/or strict adherence to rituals alone; however, the texts themselves comment on and/or espouse different kinds of ritual practices themselves. Table of contents appears at the beginning of manuscript (f. 1r).

Contents:

Kenopaniṣad (f. 1v-4r)
Kaṭhavallyopaniṣad (f. 4v-12r)
Praśnopaniṣad (f. 12r-17v).

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Written in 12-13 lines per leaf.
17 leaves foliated 1-17, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti ṣaṣṭhaḥ praśnaḥ // paśnopaniṣatsamāptaṃ // śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇamastu // (f. 1r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; metrical accents added in red at the beginning of the manuscript (f. 1v-2v).

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 493, 519, and 656 (UP 957).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 957

Contains:

Upanishads. Kenopaniṣad
Upanishads. Kaṭhopaniṣad
Upanishads. Praśnopaniṣad
Kaṭhavallyopaniṣad.

OCLC:

889886085