Details

Standardized Title:

Upanishads. Br̥hadāraṇyakopaniṣad. Adhyāya 4.

Subjects:

Vedas.
Rites and ceremonies.
Philosophy, Indic.
Hindu philosophy.
Brahman.
Ātman.
Self (Philosophy).
India.
Vedas -- Recitation -- Early works to 1800.
Self (Philosophy) -- Early works to 1800.
Ātman -- Early works to 1800.
Brahman -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu philosophy -- Early works to 1800.
Philosophy, Indic -- Early works to 1800.
Rites and ceremonies -- India -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and recitation and is a late Vedic work, a philosophical treatise that reinterprets the symbolic value of Hindu rites and rituals, pointing to an underlying continuum between the individual self (ātman) and the universe (brahman).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 10v).
Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left verso; lower right verso foliated 26-35.
Colophon: ṣaṣṭaṃ brāhmaṇaṃ // bhāṣyānusāreṇa caturtho 'dhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ // pūrṇamadaḥ pūrṇam idaṃ pūrṇāt pūrṇam udacyate / pūrṇasya pūrṇamādāya pūrṇam evāvaśiṣyate // oṃ śāṃtiḥ śāṃtiḥ śāṃtiḥ // iti śrībṛhadāraṇyake samāptaḥ // 6 // (f. 10v).
Dated saṃvat 1846 (1789) based on date from Ms. Coll. 390, Item 999 (f. 8r), a later section of the same manuscript.
Scribe is Govinda Brahma, the son of Kaṇḍabhaṭṭa Brahma, who resided in the Hindu pilgrimage center of Varāṇasī (Ms. Coll. 390, Item 999, f. 8r).
Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents added in red throughout.
Manuscript is part of a larger manuscript that also contained Ms. Coll. 390, Item 994, Item 995, Item 996, Item 998, and Item 999.

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 678 (UP 997).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 997

Contributor:

Govinda Brahma (Son of Kaṇḍabhaṭṭa Brahma), scribe.

OCLC:

893627888