Details

Standardized Title:

Upanishads. Nārāyaṇopaniṣad

Other Title:

Mahānārāyaṇopaniṣad.

Subjects:

Narayana (Hindu deity).
Nārāyaṇa (Hindu deity).
Vaishnavism.
Hindu mantras.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Prayers.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation, and is an early Hindu philosophical treatise that draws mantras and verses from various Vedic sources in order to promote the Hindu deity Nārāyaṇa; this work purports to be a subsection of the Atharvaveda.

Notes:

Title from title abbreviation in margin (f. 1r); alternate title Mahānārāyaṇopaniṣad supplied by cataloger.
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: ity[o]paniṣat // (f. 3v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.

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 614 (UP 1064).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1064

OCLC:

897954110