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Atharvaśīrṣa, circa 1700-1850.
अथर्वशीर्ष
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2747
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Sun worship.
- India.
- Sun worship--India.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Hindu philosophy.
- Philosophy, Indic.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 24 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2747
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a quasi-philosophical Vedic treatise promoting the Sun (Sūrya) as one of the highest beings in the universe and the only deity visible to the naked eye; commonly employed in rites and ceremonies and morning prayer. Verses likely drawn from the Atharvaveda. Manuscript is incomplete.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 3v).
- Written in 9 lines per leaf.
- 2 leaves foliated 2-3, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: ity atharvaśīrṣaṃsamāptaṃ // (f. 3v).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents 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 439 (UP 2747).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2747.
- OCLC:
- 974706118
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