Kaivalyopaniṣad dīpikā, circa 1700-1850.
कैवल्योपनिषद् दीपिका

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Śaṅkarānanda, active 1290.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Upanishads. Kaivalyopaniṣad.

Upanishads.

Śaivism.

Hindu mantras.

Advaita.

Vedanta.

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Śiva.

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Hindu mythology.

Philosophy, Indic.

Hindu philosophy.

Genre:

poems

treatises

commentaries

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (16 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 22 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 958

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise and commentary (dīpikā) written from the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy, about the Kaivalyopaniṣad, a post-Vedic upaniṣad written in verse, containing mantras, and told through a narrative/mythological allegory, focusing on the centrality of the Hindu god Śiva as the highest principle in the universe and identifying him with other gods as well.

Notes:

Title from marginal abbreviations.

Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.

16 leaves foliated 1-16, upper left and lower right verso.

Mistakes covered with yellow or crossed out, some additions and corrections written in margins; vertical margins indicated 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 539 (UP 958).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 958

OCLC:

889886326