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. Contains a list of 16 verses after the end of the text written in portrait rather than landscape orientation (f. 3v).
Title from title page (f. 1r).; Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.; 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.; Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1234
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