Śāntyupaniṣad, circa 1700-1850.
शान्त्युपनिषद्

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Brahman.

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Hindu mantras.

Hindu philosophy.

Philosophy, Indic.

Genre:

treatises

prayers (compositions)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 21 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1220

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. Manuscript was formerly part of a larger manuscript.

Notes:

Title from title abbreviations in margins.

Written in 10 lines per leaf.

2 leaves foliated 6-7, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: ity upaniṣat śāṃtidaḥ syāt // (f. 7v).

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; 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 778 (UP 1220).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1220

OCLC:

904025728