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

Title

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962759093503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/891665887
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6275909

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Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical commentary (vyākhyā) and treatise on the Iśopaniṣad, a late Vedic work in verse employing Hindu mantras in order to explore the meaning and nature of the highest disembodied Lord, referred to as Īśvara.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1854 (1797) and śaka 1715 (1793) (f. 17r).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line. Opening and closing folios have a border with red lines in which a series of Oṃ mantras are written (f. 1r, 17v).
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu mantras--Early works to 1800
• Hindu gods--Early works to 1800
• Hindu philosophy--Early works to 1800
• Philosophy, Indic--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 975: Iśopaniṣadvyākhyā are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

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• Text

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  URL

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated border, f. 1r
• fol. 17v — Decorated border, f. 17v