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Atharvaśiropaniṣad, circa 1700-1850.
अथर्वशिरोपनिषद्

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Format:
Manuscript
Language:
Sanskrit
Subjects (All):
Śiva (Hindu deity).
Śiva.
Śiva (Hindu deity).
Rudra (Hindu deity).
Rudra.
Śaivism.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.
Rites and ceremonies--India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Genre:
treatises
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Physical Description:
1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 25 cm
Contained In:
Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1194
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 that reinterprets the symbolic value of Hindu rites and rituals, but points especially to the centrality of the Vedic god Rudra, an early form of the Hindu deity Śiva, within the constructed universe.
Notes:
Title from colophon (f. 4v).
Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: ity atharvaśiropaniṣatsamāptimagamat (f. 4v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
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 435 (UP 1194).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1194
OCLC:
903657278

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