Manaviśrāmopaniṣad, circa 1700-1850.
मनविश्रामोपनिषद्

Format:

• Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Meditation--Hinduism.
• Yoga.
• Self (Philosophy).
• Ātman.
• Hindu philosophy.
• Philosophy, Indic.

Genre:

• treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
• Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 24 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 861

Other Title:

Dhyanabindūpaniṣad.

Place of Publication:

• circa 1700-1850.
• १७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation and may have been part of a group of five upaniṣads known as the Bindu upaniṣads, which are part of the so-called Yoga upaniṣads and deal with the topic of meditation; this group of works was written in the medieval period, not in the late Vedic period as other upaniṣads.

Notes:

• Title from colophon (f. 2v); alternate title Dhyanabindūpaniṣad (or Dhyanabindu upaniṣad) also from marginal abbreviation.
• Written in 11 lines per leaf.
• 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
• Colophon: iti manaviśrāmopaniṣatsamāptaḥ // (f. 2v).
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse dividers in 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 804 (UP 861).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 861

OCLC:

883302832