Br̥hadāraṇyakopaniṣad, circa 1650-1799.
बृहदारण्यकोपनिषद्

Format:

Manuscript

Standardized Title:

Upanishads. Br̥hadāraṇyakopaniṣad

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Rites and ceremonies.

Philosophy, Indic.

Hindu philosophy.

Brahman.

Ātman.

Self (Philosophy).

India.

Self (Philosophy)--Early works to 1800.

Ātman--Early works to 1800.

Brahman--Early works to 1800.

Hindu philosophy--Early works to 1800.

Philosophy, Indic--Early works to 1800.

Rites and ceremonies--India--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

treatises

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (43 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 27 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 847

Place of Publication:

circa 1650-1799.

१६५०-१७९९.

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, pointing to an underlying continuum between the individual self (ātman) and the universe (brahman).

Notes:

Title from marginal abbreviations throughout manuscript.

Written in 12-15 lines per leaf.

43 leaves foliated 1-43, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: ity upaniṣat[?]āṃḍe ṣaṣṭho 'dhyāyaḥ // (f. 43v).

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents added in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black 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 674 (UP 847).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 847

OCLC:

883241961