Atmaṣaṭkopaniṣad, circa 1700-1850; आत्मषट्कोपनिषद्,१७००-१८५०

Date:

1700

Description:

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. Text ends with three Vedic verses.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Self (Philosophy); Hindu philosophy; Philosophy, Indic; Hindu mythology; Vedic literature

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Treatises; Watermarks; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 item (7 leaves) : paper; 11 x 17 cm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 7v).; Written in 7 lines per leaf.; 7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: ity ātmaṣaṭkopaniṣatsamāptā // śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu // (f. 7r).; Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line on some folios.; Most folios (f. 1-5) are probably European, machine-made, with watermarks of some kind of crest (a crown or cross), along with letters associated with an unknown company.; Non-Latin script record.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts