Details

Standardized Title:

Upanishads. Aitareyopaniṣad

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
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.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 4v).
Written in 12 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: eitarīopaniṣatsamāptā // oṃ tat sat (f. 4v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections in margins; significant phrase highlighted in red.
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 477 (UP 989).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 989.

OCLC:

891754004