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Title

Saṃhitopaniṣadvivaraṇa
संहितोपनिषद्विवरण

Authors

• Śaṅkarācārya

Other related names

• Gāḍagīla, Janārdana Koṇḍadeva, former owner

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 932
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962532393503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/888063693
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6253239

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise and commentary (vivaraṇa) on a late Vedic upaniṣad (Aitareyāraṇyaka) typically appended to the Ṛgveda, dealing with speculations about the nature of being, the self, birth, and breath; early myths; text followed by selection of Vedic mantras.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 68r); alternate title Aitareyāraṇyakabhāṣya from end title page (f. 68v).
   
• Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 68 leaves foliated 1-68, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red.
   

Extent

1 item (68 leaves) : 12 x 31 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti goviṃdabhagavatsya pādaśiṣyaparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryasya śrīmacchaṃkarabhagavataḥ kṛtau saṃhitopaniṣadvivaraṇaṃ samāptaṃ // śrī kṛṣṇārpaṇam astu // bādhhaṃtaḥ karaṇānāṃ me vṛttayoyāḥ svabhāvajñāḥ svabhāvajñāḥ // tāḥ sa janārdan koṇḍadeva gāḍgīl ayāṃ ce pustaka // śrīvasudeva // (f. 68r).

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Janārdan Koṇḍadeva Gāḍgīl (f. 68r) along with Ms. Coll. 390, Item 930 and Item 931.
   

Subjects topical

• Hindu mantras
• Vedic literature
• Self (Philosophy)
• Hindu mythology
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

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

Licenses

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