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Atharvaśiropaniṣad, circa 1700-1850.
अथर्वशिरोपनिषद्
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 854
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Śaivism.
- Rudra (Hindu deity).
- Rudra.
- Śiva (Hindu deity).
- Śiva.
- SÌiva (Hindu deity).
- Hindu philosophy.
- Philosophy, Indic.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Genre:
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (6 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 26 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 854
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is used for contemplation and recitation and is a late Vedic work, a philosophical treatise that reinterprets the symbolic value of Hindu rites and rituals, but points especially to the centrality of the Vedic god Rudra, an early form of the Hindu deity Śiva, within the constructed universe.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 5).
- Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
- 6 leaves foliated 1-4, 4-5, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: ity atharvaśiropaniṣat // oṃ bhadraṃkarṇebhiḥ // svastinaṃ // (f. 5v).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
- 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 433 (UP 854).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 854
- OCLC:
- 883135983
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