Details

Standardized Title:

Aranyakas. Taittirīyāraṇyaka. Selections.

Subjects:

Vedas -- Recitation.
Vedas.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Brahman.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Watermarks.
Treatises.
Prayers.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation and is a late Vedic, Hindu philosophical treatise derived from a sub-section of the Taittirīyāraṇyaka and focusing on verses used in the Vedic rites of the Sandhyopāsana in a symbolic manner intended to help realize the ultimate principle of the brahman.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 11 lines per leaf.
9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti saha vai upaniṣatsamāptaḥ // (f. 9v).
Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; recitation accents written in red through the first part (f. 1v-7v) of the manuscript.
Machine-made paper with watermarks, bearing a floral crest of some kind and the name Gior Magnani.

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 795 (UP 1107).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1107

OCLC:

898493915