Details

Subjects:

Vaishnavism.
Tantrism.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a late upaniṣad of a quasi-philosophical nature, dedicated to a regional form of the Hindu deity Viṣṇu called Dattātreya, particularly popular in Maharashtra and associated with elements of Vaiṣṇava-tantra.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2r).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīdattātreya upaniṣat saṃpūrṇāṃ (f. 2r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases in red.

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 606 (UP 1192).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1192

OCLC:

903656976