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Śārīropaniṣad, circa 1700-1850.
शारीरोपनिषद्
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1071
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Human body--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Hindu mantras.
- Hindu philosophy.
- Philosophy, Indic.
- Genre:
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 9 x 17 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1071
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is used for contemplation and recitation and is an early, post-Vedic philosophical treatise exploring the nature of the physical body and its relationship to the innermost Self; the work also contains numerous Vedic and other kinds of mantras employed in rites of praise and worship.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 2r).
- Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
- 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: samāpteyaṃ śārīropaniṣat śubham astu (f. 2r).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
- 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 780 (UP 1071).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1071
- OCLC:
- 897961142
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