Brahmopaniṣad, circa 1700-1850
ब्रह्मोपनिषद्, १७००-१८५०
- Description
- Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation; and is a Hindu philosophical treatise, but employing Vedic mantras, with the purpose of bringing knowledge about the brahman or underlying source of reality.
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit
- Date
- 1700
- Language
- Sanskrit
- Subject
- Reality
- Hinduism
- Brahman
- Reality -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism
- Hindu mantras
- Hindu philosophy
- Philosophy, Indic
- Collection
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts
- Extent
- 1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 25 cm
- Notes
- Title from end title page (f. 2v).
- Written in 9 lines per leaf.
- 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti brahmopaniṣatsamāptā // (f. 2r).
- 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. Red border using double red line and the Oṃ mantra as a repetitive design in red within the lines on end title page (f. 2v).
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 863
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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