Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963597153503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/904024751
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6359715

Publisher

Language

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.

Notes

• Title from notes on wrapper from time of sale.
   
• Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 13 leaves foliated 22-34, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• 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.
   

Extent

Support

Subjects topical

• Gods, Vedic
• Hindu mantras
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1215: Śāntyupaniṣad are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  Metadata is ©2017 University of Pennsylvania Books & Manuscripts and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode