Brahmopaniṣad, circa 1700-1850.
ब्रह्मोपनिषद्

Format:

• Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Yoga.
• Self (Philosophy).
• Ātman.
• Brahman.
• Vedanta.
• Sankhya.
• Shaktism.
• Hindu philosophy.
• Philosophy, Indic.

Genre:

• treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
• Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 27 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 870

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 in the style of the late Vedic upaniṣads, but being written in medieval times. Part of what is known as the Yoga upaniṣads and influenced by the Saṃkhyā and Vedānta, as well as Śakta, philosophical traditions. Work expounds on the universal notion of the brahman and its relationship to the self (ātman).

Notes:

• Title from colophon (f. 2v).
• Written in 10 lines per leaf.
• 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
• Colophon: iti ity atharvaṇabrahmopaniṣat samāptaḥ oṃm śāṃtiḥ śāṃtiḥ śāṃtiḥ hari oṃ tat sat // (f. 2v).
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some syllables, words, or phrases highlighted 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 694 (UP 870).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 870

OCLC:

884918310