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Nirālambopaniṣad, circa 1700-1850.
निरालम्बोपनिषद्
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Demonology.
- India.
- Hindu philosophy.
- Philosophy, Indic.
- Demonology--India.
- Hindu cosmology.
- Genre:
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 9 x 17 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 727
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation, and is a work dedicated to philosophical inquiries, a set of questions with answers, to help better understand the nature of the universe and various aspects of its composition both physical and sociological (the nature of its constituent parts, the nature of demons, students, teachers, and more).
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 4v).
- Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
- 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti nirālaṃbopaniṣadsamāptā // (f. 4v).
- Mistakes blacked out.
- 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 636 (UP 727).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 727
- OCLC:
- 880424623
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