Details

Subjects:

Hindu goddesses.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Early work focusing on the philosophical centrality of the Goddess (Devi) and her relationship to other important deities and concepts.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 3v); alternate title Devyupaniṣad, supplied by cataloger.
Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti devyātharvaṇaśīrṣaṃ samāptaṃ // hastākṣararāmānaṃdatīrthakṣetrapaṃḍharapūrakara (f. 3v).
Scribe is Rāmānandatīrtha from Panḍharpur in Maharashtra (f. 3v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; 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 607 (UP 1218).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1218

Contributor:

Ramananda Tirtha, Swami, 1903-1972, scribe.

Contains:

Devyupaniṣad.

OCLC:

904025499