Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1268: Rāmapūrvatāpinīyopaniṣad University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1268: Rāmapūrvatāpinīyopaniṣad 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 © 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. 8v); alternate title Rāmatāpanīyopaniṣad supplied by cataloger. Written in 7 lines per leaf. 8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso. 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. Lines for title marked with red lines on title page, but there is no title written (f. 1r). 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1268 9963754393503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/905547244 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6375439 Quasi-philosophical, post-Vedic work, styled after a traditional upaniṣad. The work glorifies and compares the Hindu epic hero Rāma to the ultimate principles and highest realities in the universe and draws from the mythology of the Rāmāyaṇa. The work identifies itself as part of the Atharvaveda. In Sanskrit Rāmapūrvatāpinīyopaniṣad रामपूर्वतापिनीयोपनिषद् Colophon: ity atharvavede rāmapūrvatāpinīyopaniṣatsamāptā // (f. 8v).

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 1 item (8 leaves) : 11 x 25 cm Rāma (Hindu deity) Hindu philosophy Hindu mythology Philosophy, Indic Vedanta Commentaries Poems Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century Manuscripts--India--18th century Manuscripts--India--19th century