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

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 848 Śvetāśvataropaniṣad / श्वेताश्वतरोपनिषद्

Title

Śvetāśvataropaniṣad
श्वेताश्वतरोपनिषद्

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 848
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

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, but points especially to the centrality of the Vedic god Rudra, an early form of the Hindu deity Śiva, within the constructed universe. This work includes some of the earliest examples of mythology related to Śaivism.

Notes

Extent

1 item (6 leaves) : 13 x 28 cm

Support

Paper

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