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Ṛgvedasvaśākhopaniṣad, circa 1700-1850.
ऋग्वेदस्वशाखोपनिषद्
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Vedas--Recitation.
- Vedas.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Initiation rites--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Initiation rites.
- Genre:
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 17 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 959
- 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 work, thought to be derived from the Mānavagṛhyasūtra (1.4.4.8), a work on domestic rites attributed to the ancient author Manava, but presented as a upaniṣad, dealing with initiate groups (svaśākha) associated with the Ṛgveda and rites of initiation/ordination.
- Notes:
- Title from title page (f. 1r).
- Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
- 5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents added with red throughout; 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 802 (UP 959).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 959
- OCLC:
- 889891074
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