Ātmaṣaṭka, circa 1700-1850.
आत्मषट्क

Format:

• Manuscript

Standardized Title:

• Upanishads. Aitareyopaniṣad

Language:

• Marathi
• Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Hindu mythology.
• Self (Philosophy).
• Hindu philosophy.
• Philosophy, Indic.

Genre:

• treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
• Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 25 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1190

Place of Publication:

• circa 1700-1850.
• १७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit and Marathi (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. An unfinished Marathi work begins on the final folio (f. 4v).

Notes:

• Title from colophon (f. 4r).
• Written in 10 lines per leaf.
• 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
• Colophon: ity aitareya āraṇyake ātmaṣaṭkaḥ samāptaḥ śubhaṃ bhavatu // śrīkṛṣṇāya namaḥ // (f. 4r).
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.

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 478 (UP 1190).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1190

OCLC:

903657742