Chāndogyopaniṣad, circa 1700-1850.
छान्दोग्योपनिषद्

Format:

Manuscript

Standardized Title:

Upanishads. Chāndogyopaniṣad

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Self (Philosophy).

Vedanta.

Rites and ceremonies--India.

Rites and ceremonies.

India.

Hindu philosophy.

Philosophy, Indic.

Genre:

treatises

watermarks

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (74 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 17 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 945

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for contemplation and study and is an ancient philosophical treatise and sociological study and interpretation of more ancient rites and ceremonies from the early Vedic period. Presents a series of metaphors and philosophical problems that relate and compare the Self to the ultimate reality in the universe.

Notes:

Title from marginal abbreviations.

Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.

10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: ity upaniṣadi aṣṭamaḥ pāṭhakaḥ śrīśubhaṃ āpyāyaṃtumamāṃgāni śāṃtiḥ 6 // (f. 74r).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red lines.

Blue machine-made, possibly European, paper with watermarks of various letters of an unknown company along with a crest or a crown or cross.

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 568 (UP 945).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 945

OCLC:

889890232