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Upanişads
[ 143. ईशावास्योपनिषद्
Išāvāsyopanişad No. 143
487 (1).
1882-83. Size.-- 93 in. by sta in. Extent.-- foll. 16 to 2a ; 15 lines to a page ; 26 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper; Devanāgari characters; not very
old in appearance; hand-writing clear, legible and correct but not quite uniform throughout; red chalk used for marking; all folios in the Ms are not of uniform size; the Ms contains 108 Upanişads each Upanişad being complete in itself and having a separate pagination; some of the Upanişads seem to have been written by two or three different hands; the Taittiriya, Māntrika and Ekāksara Upanişads are wanting ; a list of all the Upanişads is given in the beginning of the Ms.
Išāvāsyopanişad teaches the qualities and characteristics of the supreme being and that Karma and Jñāna alone
are not sufficient to lead one to mokşa. Age.- Does not appear to be very old.
The Ms contains the following Upanişads :I Íśāvāsyopanişad
foll. 16 to 2 Kenopanişad 3 Kathopanişad 4 'Praśnopanişad s Mundakopanişad 6 Mānļūkyopanişad 7 Aitareyopanişad 8 Chandogyopanişad 9 Bịhadāraṇyakopanişad 10 Brahmopanişad
I Kaivalyopanişad 12 Jābālopanişad 13 Śvetāśvataropanişad 14 Hamsopanişad 15 Āruņikopanişad
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