Details

Subjects:

Upanishads. Aitareyopaniṣad.
Hindu mythology.
Self (Philosophy).
Vedic literature.
Philosophy, Indic.
Hindu philosophy.
Upanishads. Aitareyopaniṣad -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu philosophy -- Early works to 1800.
Philosophy, Indic -- Early works to 1800.
Vedic literature -- Early works to 1800.
Self (Philosophy) -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu mythology -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Commentaries.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī).

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise and commentary on the Aitareyopaniṣad, a late Vedic Upaniṣad typically appended to the Ṛgveda dealing with speculations about the nature of being, the self, birth, and breath; early myths; text followed by selection of Vedic mantras.

Notes:

Title from marginal abbreviations and internal colophon (f. 18v).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
23 leaves foliated 1-12, 12-22, upper left and lower right verso.
Internal colophon: iti śrīmadgoviṃdabhagavatpūjyapādaśiṣyaparamahaṃsaparivrIjekācāryasya śrīśaṃkarabhagavataḥ [ṛtaubakṛca] brahmaṇopaniṣadbhāṣyaṃ samāptaṃ // samāptaḥ ṣaṣṭo 'dhyāyaḥ // (f. 21v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with quadruple red line; manuscript written in two or more different scribal hands.
Non-Latin script record.

Cited in:

Listed in H.I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 487 (UP 926).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 926.

OCLC:

888060266