Aitareyopaniṣad, circa 1700-1850; ऐतरेयोपनिषद्,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.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Treatises; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 item (4 leaves) : paper; 13 x 21 cm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 4v).; Written in 12 lines per leaf.; 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: eitarīopaniṣatsamāptā // oṃ tat sat (f. 4v).; Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections in margins; significant phrase highlighted in red.; 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