1742 Śaka Saṃvat (1820 CE)

Kaivalyopaniṣad

ms_coll_390item_961 · University of Pennsylvania

Sanskrit Devanāgarī Script Minor upaniṣad literature Śaiva Upaniṣad
Repository University of Pennsylvania
Reference No. ms_coll_390item_961
Language Sanskrit
Date 1742 Śaka Saṃvat (1820 CE)

About this Manuscript

The paper manuscript is Kaivalya upaniṣad. The text expresses Shaivism in vedanta. Aśvalayana ask to brahma about realizaton of the self and non dual idendity. The Kaivalya Upanishad describes the final stage of complete realization, where one attains the ultimate knowledge that dissolves all duality, allowing the realized being to emerge as the one the absolute, beyond all distinctions. Title from colophon (f. 3b).The manuscript is written in 11–12 lines per leaf.; 3 leaves are foliated 1–3, upper left and lower right verso. Mistakes are blacked out or crossed out, some additions written in margins; some red wash dripped onto some folios (f. 2b–3a) as if manuscript was employed in a rite or ritual. Scribe is Śaktiyukta Vināyaka Sahasrabudhi (f. 3b). The manuscript sr no 916 and 917 are same but the scribe is different.

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Catalogue Metadata

Title Kaivalyopaniṣad
Repository University of Pennsylvania
Reference Number ms_coll_390item_961
Collection Collection of Indic Manuscripts
Language Sanskrit
Script Devanāgarī
Subject Classification Minor upaniṣad literature, Śaiva Upaniṣad, Śaivism school of Hindu philosophy, Hindu Legends of deities, Darśanaśāstra.
Date 1742 Śaka Saṃvat (1820 CE)
Place of Origin United States of America
IIIF Manifest Public IIIF manifest available

Subjects & Keywords

Minor upaniṣad literature Śaiva Upaniṣad Śaivism school of Hindu philosophy Hindu Legends of deities Darśanaśāstra.