Aitareyopaniṣadbhāṣya, 1684; ऐतरेयं,१६८४

Name:

Śaṅkarācārya

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1684

Description:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a Hindu philosophical treatise and commentary on the Aitareyopaniṣad, a late Vedic Upaniṣad typically appended to the Ṛgveda dealing with speculations about the nature of being, the self, birth, and breath; early myths; text followed by selection of Vedic mantras.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Hindu mythology; Self (Philosophy); Vedic literature; Philosophy, Indic; Hindu philosophy; Hindu philosophy -- Early works to 1800; Philosophy, Indic -- Early works to 1800; Vedic literature -- Early works to 1800; Self (Philosophy) -- Early works to 1800; Hindu mythology -- Early works to 1800

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Treatises; Commentaries; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 item (23 leaves) : paper; 8 x 28 cm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Title from marginal abbreviations and internal colophon (f. 18v).; Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.; 23 leaves foliated 1-12, 12-22, upper left and lower right verso.; Internal colophon: iti śrīmadgoviṃdabhagavatpūjyapādaśiṣyaparamahaṃsaparivrIjekācāryasya śrīśaṃkarabhagavataḥ [ṛtaubakṛca] brahmaṇopaniṣadbhāṣyaṃ samāptaṃ // samāptaḥ ṣaṣṭo 'dhyāyaḥ // (f. 21v).; Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with quadruple red line; manuscript written in two or more different scribal hands.; Non-Latin script record.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 926

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts