Details

Standardized Title:

Vedas. Atharvaveda. Selections.

Other Title:

Atharvaśirasupaniṣad.

Subjects:

Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for consultation, study, and interpretation of household rites and ceremonies, derived and interpreted from the Atharvaveda, often with a philosophical perspective.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 5v); alternate title Atharvaśirasupaniṣad supplied by cataloger.
Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: atharvopaniṣat // (f. 5v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; 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 440 (UP 719).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 719

OCLC:

880437539