Details

Standardized Title:

Aranyakas. Aitareyāraṇyaka. Selections.

Other Title:

Āraṇya

Subjects:

Rites and ceremonies.
Sacrifice -- Hinduism.
India.
Sacrifice -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800.
Rites and ceremonies -- India -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Hymns (documents)
Commentaries.
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. 65v); alternate title Āraṇya from note on final folio (f. 65v).
Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
65 leaves foliated 1-65, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti paṃcamāraṇyake tṛtiyo 'dhyāyaḥ // (f. 65v).
Dated saṃvat 1730 (1673) (f. 65v), but in a second scribal hand by a former owner, so the manuscript is likely older than this date.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Bhaṭṭaṃbhaṭṭa (f. 65v).

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 165 (UP 2044).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2044.

Contributor:

Bhaṭṭaṃbhaṭṭa, former owner.

OCLC:

956712691