Śikṣopaniṣad, circa 1700-1850.
शिक्षोपनिषद्

Format:

Manuscript

Standardized Title:

Upanishads. Taittirīyopaniṣad. Śikṣavallī.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Vedas--Recitation.

Vedas.

Hindu mantras.

Self (Philosophy).

Brahman.

Hindu philosophy.

Philosophy, Indic.

Genre:

treatises

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (9 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 25 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 973

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 philosophical treatise on the attainment of divine knowledge and the importance and significance of Vedic mantras and words, their recitation, and how they lead to the realization of higher truths, such as the brahman, the ultimate principle in the universe. This text especially focuses on pronunciation.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 9v).

Written in 7 lines per leaf.

9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; metrical accents added in red throughout.

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 781 (UP 973).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 973

OCLC:

891673849