Ātmaṣaṭka, circa 1700-1850.
आत्मषट्क

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 (5 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 21 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 993

Other Title:

Ātmaṣaṭkopaniṣad.

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 title page (f. 1r); alternate title Ātmaṣaṭkopaniṣad supplied by cataloger.

Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.

5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: eitarīopaniṣatsamāptā // oṃ tat sat (f. 5v).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and significant additions/commentary in margins in a second scribal hand; significant phrase highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double red lines and title page bordered with double red lines; European blue paper.

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 489 (UP 993).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 993.

OCLC:

893979979