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Title

Chāndogyopaniṣad
छान्दोग्योपनिषद्

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 945
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962594963503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/889890278
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6259496

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript used for contemplation and study and is an ancient philosophical treatise and sociological study and interpretation of more ancient rites and ceremonies from the early Vedic period. Presents a series of metaphors and philosophical problems that relate and compare the Self to the ultimate reality in the universe.

Notes

• Title from marginal abbreviations.
   
• Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red lines.
   
• Blue machine-made, possibly European, paper with watermarks of various letters of an unknown company along with a crest or a crown or cross.
   

Extent

1 item (74 leaves) : 11 x 17 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: ity upaniṣadi aṣṭamaḥ pāṭhakaḥ śrīśubhaṃ āpyāyaṃtumamāṃgāni śāṃtiḥ 6 // (f. 74r).

Subjects topical

• Self (Philosophy)
• Vedanta
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

• Treatises
• Watermarks
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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