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Kaivalyopaniṣad, 1700-1850.
कैवल्योपनिषद्
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1144
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Upanishads. Kaivalyopaniṣad
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Śaivism.
- Śiva (Hindu deity).
- SÌiva (Hindu deity).
- Vishnu (Hindu deity).
- Indra (Hindu deity).
- Brahma (Hindu deity).
- Hindu mantras.
- Hindu mythology.
- Hindu philosophy.
- Philosophy, Indic.
- Genre:
- treatises
- poems
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 15 x 19 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1144
- Place of Publication:
- 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is used for contemplation and recitation and is a post-Vedic upaniṣad, a philosophical treatise written in verse containing mantras and told through a narrative/mythological allegory, focusing on the centrality of the Hindu god Śiva as the highest principle in the universe and identifying him with the gods Viṣṇu, Brahmā, and Indra. The manuscript identifies itself as deriving from the Atharvaveda (f. 4v).
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 4v).
- Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
- 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
- Mistakes blacked out or crossed out.
- Colophon: iti atharvavede kaivalyopaniṣadsamāptaḥ // (f. 4v).
- 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 538 (UP 1144).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1144
- OCLC:
- 898565065
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