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Title

Śvetāśvataropaniṣadvivaraṇa
श्वेताश्वतरोपनिषद्विवरण

Authors

• Vijñānātman

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 972
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962759043503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/891664651
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6275904

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 the Śvetāśvataropaniṣad, a work 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 a medieval exegesis of late Vedic mythology related to Śaivism.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 61v).
   
• Written in 13 lines per leaf.
   
• 61 leaves foliated 1-61, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red.
   

Extent

1 item (61 leaves) : 13 x 25 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrīmatjñānottamapūjyapādaśiṣyaśrīmadvijñānātmabhagavataḥ kṛtau śvetāśvataropaniṣadvivaraṇeṣaṣṭho 'dhyāyaḥ śrī (f. 61v).

Subjects topical

• Śaivism
• Rudra (Hindu deity)
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic
• Rites and ceremonies--India

Genres

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

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