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Praśnopaniṣad, 1860.
प्रश्नोपनिषद्
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1166
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Upanishads. Praśnopaniṣad
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Hinduism.
- Hinduism--Examinations, questions, etc.
- Self (Philosophy).
- Advaita.
- Vedanta.
- Hindu philosophy.
- Philosophy, Indic.
- Genre:
- Examinations.
- commentaries
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (11 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 35 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1166
- Place of Publication:
- 1860.
- १८६०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation, and is a late Vedic work that addresses early philosophical concepts of the Self (ātman) and poses a series of questions (praśna) and answers between students and their teacher. In the process the work addresses and offers an interpretation of early social and ritual action. A commentary titled Praśnopaniṣadvyākhyā, possibly by Damodāra, runs parallel above and below the root text.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 11r); title of commentary, Praśnopaniṣadvyākhyā, from commentary colophon.
- Written in 11 lines per leaf.
- 11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti praśnopaniṣatsamāptaṃ (f. 11r).
- Scribe is Bhānu (Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1165, f. 4r).
- Dated saṃvat 1917 and śaka 1782 (1860) based on Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1169 (f. 100r), written by the same scribe.
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
- Manuscript written by the same scribe as Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1160, Item 1161, Item 1164, Item 1165, Item 1167, Item 1168, Item 1169, and Item 1172.
- 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 666 (UP 1166).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1166
- Contains:
- Damodāra. Praśnopaniṣadvyākhyā.
- OCLC:
- 903651443
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