Amṛtabiṇḍūpaniṣad, circa 1700-1850
अमृतबिण्डूपनिषद्, १७००-१८५०
- Description
- Manuscript used for study and consultation and inquires into theories of knowledge about the self (ātman), its place in the cycle of life and death (saṃsāra), and its place in relationship to the Hindu deity Śiva, envisioned as the highest Lord of the universe. Contains discussion of mantras and sound. Text is often named as one of the so-called Yoga upaniṣads, which were likely composed in the fourteenth century or later.
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- treatises
- prayers (compositions)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit
- Date
- 1700
- Language
- Sanskrit
- Subject
- Yoga
- Salvation -- Hinduism
- Knowledge, Theory of (Hinduism)
- Śiva (Hindu deity)
- Siva (Hindu deity)
- Self (Philosophy)
- Hindu mantras
- Sound -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism
- Collection
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts
- Extent
- 1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 33 cm
- Notes
- Title from colophon (f. 4r).
- Written in 21-23 lines per leaf.
- 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: ity amṛtabiṃdūpaniṣatsamāptam // śrīsāṃbasadāśivārpaṇam astu // (f. 4r).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
- Non-Latin script record.
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3k06x37f
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 928
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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