Details

Standardized Title:

Upanishads. Aitareyopaniṣad

Subjects:

Self (Philosophy).
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.
Hindu mythology.
Vedic literature.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Watermarks.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī).

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, and recitation, and is a late Vedic philosophical treatise appended to the Ṛgveda; as a Upaniṣad, it contains speculations about the nature of being, the self, birth, and breath; also early myths. Text ends with three Vedic verses.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 7v).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: ity ātmaṣaṭkopaniṣatsamāptā // śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu // (f. 7r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line on some folios.
Most folios (f. 1-5) are probably European, machine-made, with watermarks of some kind of crest (a crown or cross), along with letters associated with an unknown company.
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 475 (UP 948).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 948.

OCLC:

889878915