Vajraśūcyupaniṣad, circa 1700-1850.
वज्रशूच्युपनिषद्

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Purity, Ritual--Hinduism.

Purity, Ritual.

Self (Philosophy).

Hindu philosophy.

Philosophy, Indic.

Rites and ceremonies--India.

Rites and ceremonies.

India.

Genre:

treatises

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (5 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 26 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 884

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 medieval philosophical treatise and ritual text designed to help purify and prepare the mind and body for attaining ultimate realization of the self and its relationship to the highest reality. Though given the name of Upaniṣad, not part of the corpus of late Vedic works of this genre.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 5v).

Written in 1-5 lines per leaf.

5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti vajraśūcyupaniṣatsamāptā (f. 5v).

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; 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 761 (UP 884).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 884

OCLC:

884884691