Details

Standardized Title:

Upanishads. Kaivalyopaniṣad

Subjects:

Śaivism.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Indra (Hindu deity).
Brahma (Hindu deity).
Hindu mantras.
Hindu mythology.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and recitation and is a post-Vedic upaniṣad, a philosophical treatise written in verse containing mantras and told through a narrative/mythological allegory, focusing on the centrality of the Hindu god Śiva as the highest principle in the universe and identifying him with the gods Viṣṇu, Brahmā, and Indra.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 3v).
Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
Scribe is Śaktiyukta Vināyaka Sahasrabudhi (f. 3v).
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out or crossed out, some additions written in margins; some red wash dripped onto some folios (f. 2v-3r) as if manuscript was employed in a rite or ritual.
Colophon: iti kaivalyopaniṣat cicchaktiyuktena vināyakena sahasrabudhyupanāmake tadehena likhitā // śake 1742 āṣāṭavadhacaturdaśyāṃ jñānadātāsomaḥ prīyatāṃ // samāptaḥ //

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 536 (UP 961).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 961

Contributor:

Śaktiyukta Vināyaka Sahasrabudhi, scribe.

OCLC:

891661236