Details

Standardized Title:

Upanishads. Īśopaniṣad

Subjects:

Vedas -- Recitation.
Vedas.
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 marginal abbreviations; alternate title Vājasaneyisaṃhitā from colophon (f. 2v).
Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: pūrṇamada - śiṣyate // śāṃtḥ 3 // yajurve[da]vāja[saneyisaṃhitā] upani[ṣad] // (f. 2v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; 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 465 (UP 881).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 881

OCLC:

884919745