Details

Standardized Title:

Upanishads. Br̥hadāraṇyakopaniṣad. Selections.

Subjects:

Philosophy, Indic.
Hindu philosophy.
Self (Philosophy).
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Rites and ceremonies -- India -- Early works to 1800.
Self (Philosophy) -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu philosophy -- Early works to 1800.
Philosophy, Indic -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuals (instructional materials)
Hymns (documents)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Called the Great forest upaniṣad, it is the seventh and eighth chapters of one of the oldest of the upaniṣad genre and is a sub-section of the Śatapatha brāhmaṇa, a Vedic ritual manual and hymns for performing public śrauta rituals and is an exegesis of ritual knowledge; speculates on the nature of the Self and meant to supplement the ritual learning. Attributed to the legendary sage Yājñavalkya.

Notes:

Title from end title page (f. 71v).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
18 leaves foliated 54-71, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmatyupaniṣatkāṃḍe ṣaṣṭamo 'dhyāyaḥ // samāptam astu // (f. 71r).
Dated śaka 1677 (1755) (f. 71r).
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 triple 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 684 (UP 1238).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1238

OCLC:

904995008