Saha vai upaniṣad, circa 1700-1850; सह वै उपनिषद्,१७००-१८५०

Date:

1700

Description:

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation and is a late Vedic, Hindu philosophical treatise derived from a sub-section of the Taittirīyāraṇyaka and focusing on verses used in the Vedic rites of the Sandhyopāsana in a symbolic manner intended to help realize the ultimate principle of the brahman.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Rites and ceremonies -- India; Rites and ceremonies; Brahman; Hindu philosophy; Philosophy, Indic

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Watermarks; Treatises; Prayers; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 item (9 leaves) : paper; 11 x 21 cm

Geographic Subject:

India

Rights:

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

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).; Written in 11 lines per leaf.; 9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: iti saha vai upaniṣatsamāptaḥ // (f. 9v).; Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; recitation accents written in red through the first part (f. 1v-7v) of the manuscript.; Machine-made paper with watermarks, bearing a floral crest of some kind and the name Gior Magnani.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

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

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts