University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 996

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DS ID:

DS8145

Shelfmark:

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 996

Title:

Br̥hadāraṇyakopaniṣad / बृहदारण्यकोपनिषद्

Upanishads

Scribe:

Govinda Brahma (Son of Kaṇḍabhaṭṭa Brahma)

Date:

1789.

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Sanskrit

Sanskrit WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 paper ; 13 x 31 cm

Note:

Title from colophon (f. 9v).
Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left verso; lower right verso foliated 17-25.
Colophon: iti bṛhadāranyake bhāṣyānukrame tṛtīyo 'dhyāyaḥ // prathamādārabhyapaṃcamo 'dhyāyaḥ // 5 // (f. 9v).
Dated saṃvat 1846 (1789) based on date from Ms. Coll. 390, Item 999 (f. 8r), a later section of the same manuscript.
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.
Manuscript is part of a larger manuscript that also contained Ms. Coll. 390, Item 994, Item 995, Item 997, Item 998, and Item 999.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Sanskrit

Manuscripts

treatises

Hindu philosophy

Early works

Rites and ceremonies

Vedas

Recitations

Ātman

Self (Philosophy)

India

Philosophy, Indic

Brahman

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9962877093503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3jq06/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania