Details

Standardized Title:

Upanishads. Aitareyopaniṣad

Subjects:

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. Contains a list of 16 verses after the end of the text written in portrait rather than landscape orientation (f. 3v).

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

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 481 (UP 1234).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1234

OCLC:

904706171