University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Coll 390, Item 995

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DS ID:

DS8144

Shelfmark:

Ms. Coll 390, Item 995

Title:

Br̥hadāraṇyakopaniṣad

Scribe:

Govinda Brahma (Son of Kaṇḍabhaṭṭa Brahma)

Date:

1789.

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Sanskrit

Sanskrit WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 paper ; 13 x 31 cm

Note:

Dated saṃvat 1846 (1789) based on date from Ms. Coll. 390, Item 999 (f. 8r), a later section of the same manuscript.
Manuscript is part of a larger manuscript that also contained Ms. Coll. 390, Item 994, Item 996, Item 997, Item 998, and Item 999.
Title from colophon (f. 7v).
Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.
Scribe is Govinda Brahma, the son of Kaṇḍabhaṭṭa Brahma, who resided in the Hindu pilgrimage center of Varāṇasī (Ms. Coll. 390, Item 999, f. 8r).
Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents added in red throughout.
Colophon: iti bṛhadāranyake caturtho 'dhyāyaḥ // 4 // bhāṣyānumato dvitīyo 'dhyāyaḥ // 2 // (f. 7v).

Keyword:

Manuscripts

treatises

Manuscripts, Sanskrit

Self (Philosophy)

Vedas--Recitation--Early works to 1800

Brahman

Early works

Hindu philosophy

Ātman

Philosophy, Indic

Rites and ceremonies

Vedas

India

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9962876923503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3bg2hd65/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania