Br̥hadāraṇyakopaniṣad. Adhyāya 1, 1789; बृहदारण्यकोपनिषद्.अध्याय १,१७८९

Contributor:

Govinda Brahma (Son of Kaṇḍabhaṭṭa Brahma) (scribe)

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1789

Description:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and recitation and is a late Vedic work, a philosophical treatise that reinterprets the symbolic value of Hindu rites and rituals, pointing to an underlying continuum between the individual self (ātman) and the universe (brahman).

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Rites and ceremonies; Philosophy, Indic; Hindu philosophy; Brahman; Ātman; Self (Philosophy); Self (Philosophy) -- Early works to 1800; Ātman -- Early works to 1800; Brahman -- Early works to 1800; Hindu philosophy -- Early works to 1800; Philosophy, Indic -- Early works to 1800; Rites and ceremonies -- India -- Early works to 1800

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Treatises; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 item (9 leaves) : paper; 13 x 31 cm

Geographic Subject:

India

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).; Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.; 9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: iti bṛhadāranyake tṛtīyo 'dhyāyaḥ //3 // bhāṣy[ānu]mate prathamo 'dhyāyaḥ // 1 // (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 995, Item 996, Item 997, Item 998, and Item 999.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts