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Praśnopaniṣad, circa 1700-1850.
प्रश्नोपनिषद्
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1198
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Upanishads. Praśnopaniṣad
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Hinduism.
- Hinduism--Examinations, questions, etc.
- Self (Philosophy).
- Ātman.
- Hindu philosophy.
- Philosophy, Indic.
- Genre:
- Examinations.
- Treatises.
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (7 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 24 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1198
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 7v).
- Written in 9 lines per leaf.
- 7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti praśnopaniṣatsamāptaṃ (f. 7v).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or 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 660 (UP 1198).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1198
- OCLC:
- 903658884
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