Devyātharvaṇaśīrṣa, circa 1700-1850.
देव्याथर्वणशीर्ष

Format:

• Manuscript

Contributor:

• Ramananda Tirtha, Swami, 1903-1972, scribe.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Hindu goddesses.
• Hindu philosophy.
• Philosophy, Indic.

Genre:

• treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
• Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (3 leaves) : paper ; 22 x 10 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1218

Place of Publication:

• circa 1700-1850.
• १७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Early work focusing on the philosophical centrality of the Goddess (Devi) and her relationship to other important deities and concepts.

Notes:

• Title from colophon (f. 3v); alternate title Devyupaniṣad, supplied by cataloger.
• Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
• 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
• Colophon: iti devyātharvaṇaśīrṣaṃ samāptaṃ // hastākṣararāmānaṃdatīrthakṣetrapaṃḍharapūrakara (f. 3v).
• Scribe is Rāmānandatīrtha from Panḍharpur in Maharashtra (f. 3v).
• 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 607 (UP 1218).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1218

Contains:

Devyupaniṣad.

OCLC:

904025499