Aitareyopaniṣad, circa 1700-1850. = ऐतरेयोपनिषद्, १७००-१८५०.
- Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
१७००-१८५०. - Format/Description:
- Manuscript
1 item (7 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 24 cm - Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1216
- Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3sg33 - Status/Location:
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- 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