Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1101: Śvetāśvataropaniṣad University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1101: Śvetāśvataropaniṣad 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/. Metadata is ©2018 University of Pennsylvania Books & Manuscripts and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Title from colophon (f. 14r). Written in 8 lines per leaf. 14 leaves foliated 1-14, upper left and lower right verso. Mistakes covered in yellow or crossed out; some additions and corrections in margins; significant symbols, words, and phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with a double red line. Scribe is Ācāryapremjī (f. 14r). 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1101 9963188143503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/898036484 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6318814 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. In Sanskrit Śvetāśvataropaniṣad श्वेताश्वतरोपनिषद् scribe Ācāryapremjī Colophon: iti śvetāśvataropaniṣadiṣaṣṭho 'dhyāyaḥ // saṃvat 1773 varṣe kārttikamāse kṛṣṇapakṣe hy āmāvāsyāyāṃ śanau likhitaṃ ācāryapremjī // śrīrastu // kalpāṇam astu // (f. 14r).

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 1 item (14 leaves) : 11 x 24 cm Śaivism--Early works to 1800 Rudra (Hindu deity)--Early works to 1800 Siva (Hindu deity)--Early works to 1800 Hindu philosophy--Early works to 1800 Philosophy, Indic--Early works to 1800 Rites and ceremonies--India--Early works to 1800 Treatises Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century Manuscripts--India--18th century