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Brahmopaniṣad, circa 1700-1850.
ब्रह्मोपनिषद्
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 863
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Reality.
- Hinduism.
- Brahman.
- Reality--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Hindu mantras.
- Hindu philosophy.
- Philosophy, Indic.
- Genre:
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 25 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 863
- 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 Hindu philosophical treatise, but employing Vedic mantras, with the purpose of bringing knowledge about the brahman or underlying source of reality.
- Notes:
- Title from end title page (f. 2v).
- Written in 9 lines per leaf.
- 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti brahmopaniṣatsamāptā // (f. 2r).
- 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. Red border using double red line and the Oṃ mantra as a repetitive design in red within the lines on end title page (f. 2v).
- 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 693 (UP 863).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 863
- OCLC:
- 884816999
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