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Nārāyaṇa atharvaśira, circa 1700-1850.
नारायण अथर्वशिर
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1066
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Upanishads. Nārāyaṇopaniṣad
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Narayana (Hindu deity).
- Narayana.
- Nārāyaṇa (Hindu deity).
- Vaishnavism.
- Hindu mantras.
- Hindu philosophy.
- Philosophy, Indic.
- Genre:
- treatises
- prayers (compositions)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 9 x 14 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1066
- Other Title:
- Atharvaśiralaghu.
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation, and is an early Hindu philosophical treatise that draws mantras and verses from various Vedic sources in order to promote the Hindu deity Nārāyaṇa; this work purports to be a subsection of the Atharvaveda.
- Notes:
- Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Atharvaśiralaghu from colophon (f. 3v).
- Written in 7 lines per leaf.
- 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: hariḥ oṃ tat sat atharvaṇaśiralaghusamāptaḥ // śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu // (f. 3v).
- Mistakes blacked out; a number of corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black 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 615 (UP 1066).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1066
- OCLC:
- 897955376
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