Details

Standardized Title:

Aranyakas. Aitareyāraṇyaka

Other Title:

Āraṇyaka

Subjects:

Sacrifice -- Hinduism.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Hymns (documents)
Commentaries.
Watermarks.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Canonical Hindu text deals with symbolic interpretation of the Vedic sacrifice and functions as an ancient commentary on Vedic hymns and as a ritual manual.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 52v); alternate title Āraṇyaka from cover page (f. 1r).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
53 leaves foliated 1-53, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti paṃcamāraṇyakaṃ samāptaṃ // śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu // (f. 52v).
Watermarks of a floral design near the end of the manuscript, possibly part of a coat of arms.
Scribe is Bhāskara Dāḍekara (f. 52v).
Dated śaka 1741 (1819) (f. 52v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.

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 164 (UP 2043).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2043.

Contributor:

Dāḍekara, Bhāskara, scribe.

OCLC:

956712121