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Title

Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad
बृहदारण्यकोपनिषद्

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 722
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962109383503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/880450460
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6210938

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is an addition and subsection of a larger Brahmana dedicated to the performance and interpretation of ancient Vedic rites and ceremonies.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 79v).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 62 leaves foliated 1-43, 61-79, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1937 and śaka 1802 (1880) (f. 79v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents in red throughout first half of manuscripts.
   

Extent

1 item (62 leaves) : 9 x 18 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti bṛhadāraṇyakeṣaṣṭhodhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 79v).

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

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