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Br̥hadāraṇyakopaniṣad. Adhyāya 6, 1789.
बृहदारण्यकोपनिषद्. अध्याय ६,
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 999
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Upanishads. Br̥hadāraṇyakopaniṣad. Adhyāya 6.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Philosophy, Indic.
- Hindu philosophy.
- Brahman.
- Ātman.
- Self (Philosophy).
- India.
- Self (Philosophy)--Early works to 1800.
- Ātman--Early works to 1800.
- Brahman--Early works to 1800.
- Hindu philosophy--Early works to 1800.
- Philosophy, Indic--Early works to 1800.
- Rites and ceremonies--India--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- treatises
- tables (documents)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (8 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 31 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 999
- Place of Publication:
- 1789.
- १७८९.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is used for contemplation and recitation and is a late Vedic work, a philosophical treatise that reinterprets the symbolic value of Hindu rites and rituals, pointing to an underlying continuum between the individual self (ātman) and the universe (brahman). Small table at the end of the manuscript (f. 8r).
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 8v).
- Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
- 8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left verso; lower right verso foliated 39-46.
- Colophon: oṃ pūrṇamadaḥ pūrṇam idaṃ pūrṇāt pūrṇam udacyate / pūrṇasya pūrṇamādāya pūrṇam evāvaśiṣyate // oṃ śāṃtiḥ śāṃtiḥ śāṃtiḥ // iti bṛhadāraṇye aṣṭamo 'dhyāyaḥ // 8 // bhāṣyānukrame ṣaṣṭo 'dhyāyaḥ // 6 // (f. 8r).
- Dated saṃvat 1846 (1789) (f. 8r).
- Scribe is Govinda Brahma, the son of Kaṇḍabhaṭṭa Brahma who resided in the Hindu pilgrimage center of Varāṇasī (f. 8r).
- Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, and phrases highlighted in red throughout.
- Manuscript is part of a larger manuscript that also contained Ms. Coll. 390, Item 994, Item 995, Item 996, Item 997, and Item 998.
- 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 680 (UP 999).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 999
- OCLC:
- 893628971
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