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).
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.; In Sanskrit and Marathi (Devanāgarī)
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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390
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