Details

Subjects:

Human body -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Hindu mantras.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and recitation and is an early, post-Vedic philosophical treatise exploring the nature of the physical body and its relationship to the innermost Self; the work also contains numerous Vedic and other kinds of mantras employed in rites of praise and worship.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 4v).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: śārīropaniṣadsamāptāḥ (f. 4v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black 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 779 (UP 1070).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1070

OCLC:

897960788