Details

Subjects:

Yoga.
Shaktism.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Poems.
Watermarks.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and recitation of verses and is a collection of 30 upaniṣads although the title page suggests that it is a collection of 22 beginning with the Brahmopaniṣad. Most are medieval rather than Vedic period upaniṣads and are from the group known as the Yoga upaniṣads or Yogopaniṣads; other are from Śaiva upaniṣads and focus on the Hindu deity Śiva and Śaktism and draw from other medieval philosophical traditions.

Contents:

Brahmopaniṣad (f. 1v-2v)
Kalvalyopaniṣad (f. 2v-3v)
Jabālopaniṣad (f. 3v-5r)
Śvetāśvataropaniṣad (f. 5r-9v)
Haṃsopaniṣad (f. 10r-10v)
Āruṇikopaniṣad (f. 10v-11v)
Garbopaniṣad (f. 11v-13r)
Nārāyanọpaniṣad (f. 13r-13v)
Paramahaṃsopaniṣad (f. 14r-14v)
Amṛtabindūpaniṣad (f. 15r-15v)
Amṛtanādopaniṣad (f. 16r-17r)
Atharvaśirasupaniṣad (f. 19r-19v)
Atharvaśikhopaniṣad (f. 20r-21r)
MaitrāyāṇIyopaniṣad (f. 21r-24v)
KaiṣItakibrāhmaṇopaniṣad (f. 25r-34r)
Bṛjjābālopaniṣad (f. 34r-41v)
Nṛsiṃhapūrvatāpanīyopaniṣad (f. 41v-47v)
NṛsiṃhottaratāpanIyopaniṣad (f. 48r-54r)
Kālāgnirudropaniṣad (f. 54v-55r)
Maitreyopaniṣad (f. 55r-57v)
Subālopaniṣad (f. 58r-63v)
Kṣurikopaniṣad (f. 64r-64v)
Anubhavasāropaniṣad (f. 65r-65v)
Nirālambopaniṣad (f. 65v-67r)
Rahasyopaniṣad (f. 67r-69v)
Vajrasūcyupaniṣad (f. 69v-70v)
Tejobindūpaniṣad (f. 70v-85r)
Nādabindūpaniṣad (f. 85v-87r)
Dhyānabindūpaniṣad (f. 87r-91v)
Brahmaviyopaṇiṣad (f. 91v-95r).

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 11-13 lines per leaf.
95 leaves foliated 1-95, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: oṃ śrīsadgurūnāthadayāvaṃtadattātreyārpaṇamastu // śrīrāmacaṃdrārpaṇamastu // oṃ brahmavidyopaniṣatsamāptā // śake 1761 vikari - phālgunava - 10 // (f. 95r).
Dated śaka 1761 (1839) (f. 95r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout..
Watermarks of partial words and names, including Aperony and Prat. Paper is blue and European made.

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 432, 438, 443, 454, 542, 455, 462, 510, 533, 545, 558, 583, 586, 609, 610, 621, 634, 642, 643, 648, 672, 689, 692, 744, 745, 753, 766, 785, and 801 (UP 842).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 842.

Contains:

Upanishads. Śvetāśvataropaniṣad
Upanishads. Garbhopaniṣad
Upanishads. Nārāyaṇopaniṣad
Upanishads. Amr̥tabindūpaniṣad
Upanishads. Maitrayāṇiyopaniṣad
Upanishads. Nr̥siṃhatāpanīyopaniṣad
Upanishads. Sarvasāropaniṣad
Brahmopaniṣad.
Kalvalyopaniṣad.
Jabālopaniṣad.
Haṃsopaniṣad.
Āruṇikopaniṣad.
Paramahaṃsopaniṣad.
Amṛtanādopaniṣad.
Atharvaśirasupaniṣad.
Atharvaśikhopaniṣad.
MaitrāyāṇIyopaniṣad.
KaiṣItakibrāhmaṇopaniṣad.
Bṛjjābālopaniṣad.
NṛsiṃhottaratāpanIyopaniṣad.
Kālāgnirudropaniṣad.
Subālopaniṣad.
Kṣurikopaniṣad.
Nirālambopaniṣad.
Rahasyopaniṣad.
Vajrasūcyupaniṣad.
Tejobindūpaniṣad.
Nādabindūpaniṣad.
Dhyānabindūpaniṣad.
Brahmaviyopaṇiṣad.

OCLC:

925965041