Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 926: Aitareyopaniṣadbhāṣya
University of Pennsylvania
These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 926: Aitareyopaniṣadbhāṣya are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.
Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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.
3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206.
University of Pennsylvania
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Ms. Coll. 390 Item 926
9962531953503681
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/888060386
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6253195
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.
In Sanskrit
Aitareyopaniṣadbhāṣya
ऐतरेयं
Śaṅkarācārya
paper
1 item (23 leaves) : 8 x 28 cm
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
Treatises
Commentaries
Manuscripts, Sanskrit--17th century
Manuscripts--India--17th century