Details

Other Title:

Bhṛguvidyopaniṣad.

Subjects:

Vedas -- Recitation.
Vedas.
Food -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Varuṇa (Hindu deity).
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hindu mythology.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Dialogues.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation, and is a late Vedic, quasi-philosophical work reflecting on the nature of the self in the realm of ultimate existence through the lens of a narrative about the adventures of the ancient sage Bhṛgu and his encounter and dialogue with his father Varuṇa, who equates the ultimate principle in the universe, the brahman, with food.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 4v); alternate title supplied by cataloger.
Written in 10 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti bhṛguvidā upaniṣatsamāptaḥ // śrāva-va-2 saṃvat 1860 // (f. 4v).
Dated saṃvat 1860 (1803) (f. 4v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents added with red throughout; 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 701 (UP 950).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 950

OCLC:

889890630