Kaṭhopaniṣad, 1860.
कठोपनिषद्

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

Bhanu, Swami, scribe.

Standardized Title:

Upanishads. Kaṭhopaniṣad

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Advaita.

Vedanta.

Hindu philosophy.

Philosophy, Indic.

Genre:

commentaries

treatises

dialogues

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (17 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 35 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1167

Place of Publication:

1860.

१८६०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study and recitation, and is a Hindu or Late Vedic philosophical treatise presented as a dialogue between a father Vājraśrava, and his son Niciketas; the work addresses early concepts of the Self (ātman), as well as addressing and offering interpretation of early social and ritual action. An Advaita Vedānta commentary, Damodāra's Kāṭhopaniṣadvyākhyā, runs above and below the root text.

Notes:

Title from title abbreviations in margins throughout; title of commentary Kāṭhopaniṣadvyākhyā from commentary colophon (f. 16r).

Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.

17 leaves foliated 1-16, [i], upper left and lower right verso.

Commentary colophon: iti kaṭhavallīvyākhyādāmodarakṛteti (f. 16r).

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 1166, 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 504 (UP 1167).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1167

Contains:

Damodāra. Kāṭhopaniṣadvyākhyā.

OCLC:

903651806