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Title

Br̥hadāraṇyakopaniṣad
बृहदारण्यकोपनिषद्

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 847
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962343433503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/883241829
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6234343

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and recitation and is a late Vedic work, a philosophical treatise that reinterprets the symbolic value of Hindu rites and rituals, pointing to an underlying continuum between the individual self (ātman) and the universe (brahman).

Notes

• Title from marginal abbreviations throughout manuscript.
   
• Written in 12-15 lines per leaf.
   
• 43 leaves foliated 1-43, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents added in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   

Extent

1 item (43 leaves) : 13 x 27 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: ity upaniṣat[?]āṃḍe ṣaṣṭho 'dhyāyaḥ // (f. 43v).

Subjects topical

• Self (Philosophy)--Early works to 1800
• Ātman--Early works to 1800
• Brahman--Early works to 1800
• Hindu philosophy--Early works to 1800
• Philosophy, Indic--Early works to 1800
• Rites and ceremonies--India--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--17th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--17th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

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