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Kaṭhavalyopaniṣad, 1700-1850.
कठवल्योपनिषद्
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 964
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Upanishads. Kaṭhopaniṣad
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Ātman.
- Self (Philosophy).
- Hindu philosophy.
- Hindu mythology.
- Philosophy, Indic.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Genre:
- treatises
- dialogues
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (14 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 16 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 964
- Place of Publication:
- 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is used for contemplation, study and recitation, and is a Hindu or Late Vedic philosophical treatise presented in the form of a story and as a dialogue between a father Vājraśrava, and his son Niciketas; the work addresses early concepts of the Self (ātman), as well as addressing and offering interpretation of early social and ritual action.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 14v).
- Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
- 14 leaves foliated 1-14, upper left and lower right verso.
- Mistakes covered in yellow or black, some additions and corrections written in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.
- Colophon: iti kaṭhavalyo[paniṣad]dvitIyadhyāyaḥ // (f. 14v).
- 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 494 (UP 964).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 964
- OCLC:
- 891661574
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