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Kenopaniṣadbhāṣya, circa 1700-1850.
प्रश्नोपनिषद्भाष्य
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1153
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Śaṅkarācārya.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Hinduism.
- Upanishads. Kenopaniṣad.
- Upanishads.
- Hinduism--Examinations, questions, etc.
- Self (Philosophy).
- Hindu cosmology.
- Advaita.
- Vedanta.
- Hindu philosophy.
- Philosophy, Indic.
- Genre:
- Examinations.
- commentaries
- treatises
- dialogues
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (21 leaves) : paper ; 19 x 36 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1153
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise and commentary (bhāṣya) written from the perspective of Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy on the Kenopaniṣad. This late Vedic work is dedicated to asking questions about the nature of the universe, human perception of it, and the highest realities therein (ātman, brahman, and others), between students and their teacher. In the process the work addresses and offers an interpretation of early social and ritual action.
- Notes:
- Title from title page (f. 1r).
- Written in 13-16 lines per leaf.
- 21 leaves foliated 1-21, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrīgoviṃdabhagavatpādapūjyapādaśiṣyaparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrīmacchaṃkarabhagavataḥ kṛtau talavakāropaniṣatsūdragaṇevākyavivaraṇaṃ samāptaṃ // (f. 21v).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line. Some folios are treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect the manuscript from insects.
- Manuscript is written by the same hand as Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1152.
- 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 524 (UP 1153).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1153
- OCLC:
- 903125400
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