Details

Standardized Title:

Upanishads. Chāndogyopaniṣad

Subjects:

Self (Philosophy).
Vedanta.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Watermarks.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for contemplation and study and is an ancient philosophical treatise and sociological study and interpretation of more ancient rites and ceremonies from the early Vedic period. Presents a series of metaphors and philosophical problems that relate and compare the Self to the ultimate reality in the universe.

Notes:

Title from marginal abbreviations.
Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: ity upaniṣadi aṣṭamaḥ pāṭhakaḥ śrīśubhaṃ āpyāyaṃtumamāṃgāni śāṃtiḥ 6 // (f. 74r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red lines.
Blue machine-made, possibly European, paper with watermarks of various letters of an unknown company along with a crest or a crown or cross.

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 568 (UP 945).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 945

OCLC:

889890232