Aitareyaṃ, circa 1700-1850.
ऐतरेयं

Format:

Manuscript

Standardized Title:

Upanishads. Aitareyopaniṣad

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Vedic literature.

Genre:

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (7 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 23 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 89

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Late Vedic text appended to the Ṛgveda; a Upaniṣad, speculation about the nature of being, birth, and breath; early myths; text followed by selection of Vedic mantras.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 6r).

Written in 7 lines per leaf.

7 leaves foliated 1-6, [7], upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti ṣaṭkam aitareyaṃ // kāśiviśveśvarārpaṇamastu // (f. 6r-v).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line; accents indicated in red.

Non-Latin script record.

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 474 (UP 89).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 89

OCLC:

758899166