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Title

Chāndogyopaniṣad
छान्दोग्योपनिषद्

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 721
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962105413503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/880439977
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6210541

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript used for contemplation and study and is an ancient kind of treatise, philosophical, and sociological study and interpretation of more ancient rites and ceremonies from the early Vedic period. Text is divided into ten rather than the usual eight sections.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 61v).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 54 leaves foliated 1-38, 46-61, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1936 (1880) (f. 61v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents in red throughout.
   

Extent

1 item (54 leaves) : 10 x 17 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti chāṃdogya upaniṣade daśamaḥ prapāṭakaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 61v).

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

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