Iśopaniṣad, circa 1700-1850.
इशोपनिषद्

Format:

Manuscript

Standardized Title:

Upanishads. Īśopaniṣad

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Hindu mantras.

Hindu gods.

Hindu philosophy.

Philosophy, Indic.

Genre:

treatises

poems

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 25 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 857

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 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 title page (f. 1r).

Written in 9 lines per leaf.

2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.

Incipit: pūrṇasya pūrṇamādāyapūrṇamevāvaśiṣyate // oṃ śāṃtḥ śāṃtḥ śāṃtiḥ // (f. 2v).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line. 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 463 (UP 857).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 857

OCLC:

883137353