Details

Subjects:

Begging -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Caste -- India.
Caste.
Meditation -- Hinduism.
Initiation rites -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for consultation and study, and is a Hindu philosophical treatise focused on activities of renunciants, such as begging for alms, meditation (breath control), and other rites. Includes brief mention of caste.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2).
Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: itī bhikṣukopaniṣadasamāptāḥ // śrīgananaprasaṃnnaḥ (f. 2r).
Mistakes blacked out; one correction/addition in margin (f. 1v).

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 697 (UP 971).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 971

OCLC:

891663340