Saha vai upaniṣad, circa 1700-1850.
सह वै उपनिषद्

Format:

Manuscript

Standardized Title:

Aranyakas. Taittirīyāraṇyaka. Selections.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Vedas--Recitation.

Vedas.

Rites and ceremonies--India.

Rites and ceremonies.

India.

Brahman.

Hindu philosophy.

Philosophy, Indic.

Genre:

watermarks

treatises

prayers (compositions)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (9 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 21 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1107

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, Hindu philosophical treatise derived from a sub-section of the Taittirīyāraṇyaka and focusing on verses used in the Vedic rites of the Sandhyopāsana in a symbolic manner intended to help realize the ultimate principle of the brahman.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).

Written in 11 lines per leaf.

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

Colophon: iti saha vai upaniṣatsamāptaḥ // (f. 9v).

Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; recitation accents written in red through the first part (f. 1v-7v) of the manuscript.

Machine-made paper with watermarks, bearing a floral crest of some kind and the name Gior Magnani.

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 795 (UP 1107).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1107

OCLC:

898493915