Details

Standardized Title:

Upanishads. Aitareyopaniṣad

Subjects:

Vedas -- Recitation.
Vedas.
Hindu mythology.
Self (Philosophy).
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

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. Manuscript ends with part of the Nārāyaṇopaniṣad.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 7r); title of partial second work Nārāyaṇopaniṣad from final title page (f. 7v).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti ṛgvede āśvalāyanīśākhāyāṃ aitareyopaniṣatsamāptam // (f. 7r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant phrases highlighted in red; metrical accents in red throughout.

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 480 (UP 1216).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1216

Contains:

Upanishads. Nārāyaṇopaniṣad

OCLC:

904025087