Two upaniṣads, circa 1700-1850.

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Vālmīki. Rāmāyaṇa.

Vālmīki.

Self (Philosophy).

Rāma (Hindu deity).

Rāma.

Rāma (Hindu deity).

Hindu mythology.

Hindu philosophy.

Philosophy, Indic.

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Genre:

treatises

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (17 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 24 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1196

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript contains two upaniṣads. The first, Aitareyopaniṣad, is a late Vedic philosophical treatise appended to the Ṛgveda; as a Upaniṣad, it contains speculations about the nature of being, the self, birth, and breath; also early myths. The second, Rāmatāpanīyopaniṣad, is a quasi-philosophical, post-Vedic work, styled after a traditional upaniṣad. The work glorifies and compares the Hindu epic hero Rāma to the ultimate principles and highest realities in the universe and draws from the mythology of the Rāmāyaṇa.

Contents:

[Part 1] Aitareyopaniṣad (f. 1r-3v)

[Part 2] Rāmatāpanīyopaniṣad (f. 1r-2v, 4r-15v).

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Written in 10-13 lines per leaf.

17 leaves foliated (Part 1) 1-3, (Part 2) 1-2, 4-15, upper left and lower right verso.

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 triple black line.

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 479 (UP 1196).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1196

Contains:

Upanishads. Aitareyopaniṣad

Rāmatāpanīyopaniṣad.

OCLC:

903657571