Details

Standardized Title:

Upanishads. Nārāyaṇopaniṣad

Other Title:

Mahānārāyaṇopaniṣad.

Subjects:

Vedas -- Recitation.
Vedas.
Narayana (Hindu deity).
Nārāyaṇa (Hindu deity).
Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu mantras.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation and is a late Vedic philosophical treatise dedicated to the philosophy, rites, and sociological aspects associated with the Hindu deity Nārāyaṇa and containing mantras for the purpose of praising him.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 40v); alternate title Mahānārāyaṇopaniṣad supplied by cataloger.
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
40 leaves foliated 1-40, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents and some corrections written in red throughout; significant symbols, words, and phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
Colophon: iti nārāyaṇa upaniṣadsamāptaḥ // caturthaḥ // (f. 40v).

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 622 (UP 946).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 946

OCLC:

889890427