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Sūryanārāyaṇopaniṣad, circa 1700-1850.
सूर्यनारायणोपनिषद्
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 947
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Upanishads. Nārāyaṇopaniṣad. Selections.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Sūrya (Hindu deity).
- Sūrya.
- Narayana (Hindu deity).
- Narayana.
- Nārāyaṇa (Hindu deity).
- Vishnu (Hindu deity).
- Vishnu.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Hindu mantras.
- Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
- Hindu philosophy.
- Philosophy, Indic.
- Genre:
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (3 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 17 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 947
- 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 late Vedic philosophical treatise dedicated to the philosophy, rites, and sociological aspects associated with the Hindu deity Nārāyaṇa and containing mantras for the purpose of praising him as the sun (sūrya).
- Notes:
- Title from title page (f. 1r).
- Written in 13-14 lines per leaf.
- 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
- Mistakes blacked out; some additions in margins.
- Colophon: ity upaniṣat // i sūryathirvaśiraṃ [samptaṃ] // oṃ tat sad brahmārpaṇaṃ a- (f. 3v).
- 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 623 (UP 947).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 947
- OCLC:
- 889878739
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