Aitareyopaniṣad., 1860.
ऐतरेयोपनिषद्

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

Bhanu, Swami, scribe.

Standardized Title:

Upanishads. Aitareyopaniṣad

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Hindu mythology.

Self (Philosophy).

Hindu philosophy.

Philosophy, Indic.

Genre:

commentaries

treatises

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (7 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 35 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1161

Place of Publication:

1860.

१८६०.

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. Commentary by Dāmodara running parallel above and below the root text.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 7r).

Written in 8-12 lines per leaf.

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

Colophon: iti aitareyopaniṣadātmadkaḥ samāptaḥ (f. 7r).

Dated saṃvat 1917 and śaka 1782 (1860) based on Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1169 (f. 100r), written by the same scribe.

Scribe is Bhānu (Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1165, f. 4r).

Manuscript is written by the same scribe as Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1160, Item 1164, Item 1165, Item 1166, Item 1167, Item 1168, Item 1169, and Item 1172.

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted 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 485 (UP 1161).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1161

OCLC:

903650157