Rāmapūrvatāpinīyopaniṣad , circa 1700-1850.
रामपूर्वतापिनीयोपनिषद्

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Vālmīki. Rāmāyaṇa.

Vālmīki.

Vedas. Atharvaveda.

Vedas.

Rāma (Hindu deity).

Rāma.

Hindu philosophy.

Hindu mythology.

Philosophy, Indic.

Vedanta.

Genre:

commentaries

poems

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (8 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 25 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1268

Other Title:

Rāmatāpanīyopaniṣad.

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Quasi-philosophical, post-Vedic work, styled after a traditional upaniṣad. The work glorifies and compares the Hindu epic hero Rāma to the ultimate principles and highest realities in the universe and draws from the mythology of the Rāmāyaṇa. The work identifies itself as part of the Atharvaveda.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 8v); alternate title Rāmatāpanīyopaniṣad supplied by cataloger.

Written in 7 lines per leaf.

8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: ity atharvavede rāmapūrvatāpinīyopaniṣatsamāptā // (f. 8v).

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. Lines for title marked with red lines on title page, but there is no title written (f. 1r).

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 757 (UP 1268).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1268

OCLC:

905547245