Details

Standardized Title:

Upanishads. Māṇḍūkyopaniṣad

Subjects:

Consciousness -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Hindu mantras.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise employing primarily Hindu mantras (phrases of power). The work outlines four states of consciousness (awake, dreaming, sleeping, and transcendent). After the main text is complete (f. 8r), the beginning of the Ṛgveda is written on the back of the final folio (f. 8v).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 8v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
8 leaves foliated, 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
Incipit: cidacidgraṃthiścāhaṃ tadakṣayaṃ jñeyamāmokṣāt // (f. 8r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red. Metrical accents added in black on the final folio (f. 8v).

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 707 (UP 858).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 858

Contains:

Vedas. R̥gveda. Selections

OCLC:

883138911