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Aitareyopaniṣad, circa 1700-1850.
ऐतरेयोपनिषद्
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 989
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Upanishads. Aitareyopaniṣad
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Self (Philosophy).
- Hindu philosophy.
- Philosophy, Indic.
- Hindu mythology.
- Genre:
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 21 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 989
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 4v).
- Written in 12 lines per leaf.
- 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: eitarīopaniṣatsamāptā // oṃ tat sat (f. 4v).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections in margins; significant phrase highlighted 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 477 (UP 989).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 989.
- OCLC:
- 891754004
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