Atmaṣaṭkopaniṣad, circa 1700-1850.
आत्मषट्कोपनिषद्

Format:

Manuscript

Standardized Title:

Upanishads. Aitareyopaniṣad

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Self (Philosophy).

Hindu philosophy.

Philosophy, Indic.

Hindu mythology.

Vedic literature.

Genre:

treatises

watermarks

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (7 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 17 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 948

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

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. Text ends with three Vedic verses.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 7v).

Written in 7 lines per leaf.

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

Colophon: ity ātmaṣaṭkopaniṣatsamāptā // śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu // (f. 7r).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line on some folios.

Most folios (f. 1-5) are probably European, machine-made, with watermarks of some kind of crest (a crown or cross), along with letters associated with an unknown company.

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 475 (UP 948).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 948.

OCLC:

889878915