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Garbhopaniṣad, circa 1700-1850.
गर्भोपनिषद्
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 965
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Upanishads. Garbhopaniṣad
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Self (Philosophy).
- India.
- Human body--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Self (Philosophy)--India.
- Hindu philosophy.
- Philosophy, Indic.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Genre:
- treatises
- watermarks
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 15 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 965
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript used for contemplation, study, and recitation, and is a Hindu philosophical treatise dealing with the nature and physiology of the human body, its origin, and the nature of selfhood.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 4v).
- Written in 11-13 lines per leaf.
- 4 leaves foliated 1-4, lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti garbhopaniṣat // śrīrāmajayarāma (f. 4v).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.
- Machine-made paper with a partial watermark showing a series of circles within which are different designs, one of which looks like a flower.
- 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 559 (UP 965).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 965
- OCLC:
- 891661717
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