Iśāvāsya, circa 1700-1850.
ईशावास्य

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

Mahīdhara.

Standardized Title:

Upanishads. Īśopaniṣad

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Vedas--Recitation.

Vedas.

Hindu mantras.

Hindu gods.

Advaita.

Vedanta.

Hindu philosophy.

Philosophy, Indic.

Genre:

commentaries

treatises

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (7 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 35 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1171

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and recitation and is a late Vedic work, a philosophical treatise in verse employing Hindu mantras that explores the meaning and nature of the highest disembodied Lord, referred to as Īśvara. Work contains Mahīdhara's commentary, titled Īśopaniṣadbhāṣya.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1v); commentary title Īśopaniṣadbhāṣya from marginal abbreviations.

Written in 11 lines per leaf.

7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti vājasane ye śāvāsyaṃ (f. 7r).

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, or phrases, as well as verse dividers and metrical accents on the root text, highlighted in red.

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 470 (UP 1171).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1171

Related Work:

Mahīdhara. Īśopaniṣadbhāṣya.

OCLC:

903654737