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Chāndogya. Adhyāya 6, circa 1700-1850.
छान्दोग्य. अध्याय 6,
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1146
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Upanishads. Chāndogyopaniṣad. Selections.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Self (Philosophy).
- Vedanta.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Hindu philosophy.
- Philosophy, Indic.
- Genre:
- treatises
- commentaries
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (5 leaves) : paper ; 16 x 25 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1146
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript used for contemplation and study and is an ancient philosophical treatise and sociological study and interpretation of more ancient rites and ceremonies from the early Vedic period. Presents a series of metaphors and philosophical problems that relate and compare the Self to the ultimate reality in the universe. Manuscript contains an extensive commentary above most lines of the root text.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 5r).
- Written in 11-13 lines per leaf.
- 5 leaves foliated 1-5 even numbers only, lower right verso.
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins, with an extensive commentary written in red above most lines of text.
- 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 571 (UP 1146).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1146
- OCLC:
- 898565851
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