Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1234: Ātmaṣaṭka
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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.
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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1234
9963665363503681
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/904706170
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6366536
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).
In Sanskrit
Ātmaṣaṭka
आत्मषट्क
paper
1 item (3 leaves) : 13 x 27 cm
Hindu mythology
Self (Philosophy)
Hindu philosophy
Philosophy, Indic
Treatises
Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
Manuscripts--India--18th century
Manuscripts--India--19th century