Śāntyupaniṣad, circa 1700-1850.
शान्त्युपनिषद्

Format:

• Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Vedas--Recitation.
• Vedas.
• Gods, Vedic.
• Hindu mantras.
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
• Hindu philosophy.
• Philosophy, Indic.

Genre:

• prayers (compositions)
• treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
• Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 23 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1214

Place of Publication:

• circa 1700-1850.
• १७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and recitation and is a Hindu quasi-philosophical treatise that praises the Vedas and Vedic gods and connects them with philosophical ideas about the oneness and unity of things with the ultimate principle in the universe, the brahman.

Notes:

• Title from title abbreviations in margin.
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
• 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout. Metrical accents indicated 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 777 (UP 1214).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1214

OCLC:

904024655