Praśnopaniṣad, circa 1700-1850.
प्रश्नोपनिषद्

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

Kāśyāṇḍeṅkare Māhādeva, scribe.

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 1197

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 10 lines per leaf.

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

Colophon: iti praśnopaniṣatsamāptaḥ // (f. 7v).

Scribe is Kāśyāṇḍeṅkare Māhādeva (f. 7v).

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 double red 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 659 (UP 1197).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1197

OCLC:

904022260