Details

Standardized Title:

Upanishads. Īśopaniṣad

Subjects:

Hindu mantras.
Hindu gods.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and recitation and is a late Vedic work, a philosophical treatise though also a poetic work employing Hindu mantras that explores the meaning and nature of the highest disembodied Lord, referred to as Īśvara.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Incipit: pūrṇasya pūrṇamādāyapūrṇamevāvaśiṣyate // oṃ śāṃtḥ śāṃtḥ śāṃtiḥ // (f. 2v).
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. Metrical accents added in red throughout.

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 463 (UP 857).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 857

OCLC:

883137353