Image: 1827 CE manuscript copy, Vedic era Aitareya Brahmana, Schoyen Collection Norway

Description: The Brahmanas are a layer of texts in the Vedas, and they belong to the period 900–700 BCE. The Aitareya Brahmana is a pre-5th century BCE text of the Vedic era, with some dating it to c. 600 BCE. It covers various matters relating to Vedic rituals, how to conduct them properly, and discusses the various meanings of the samhita hymns. The above photo is of a manuscript copied on paper c. 1827 CE, and is now MS 2164 of the Schoyen Collection, near Oslo, Norway. It is written in Sanskrit on paper, Devanagari script. This is a photograph of a two-dimensional manuscript copied in early 19th-century from a much older text. Therefore and PD-Art and PD-US-expired guidelines of wikimedia commons apply. Any rights I have as a photographer, I herewith donate to wikimedia commons under CC 4.0.
Title: 1827 CE manuscript copy, Vedic era Aitareya Brahmana, Schoyen Collection Norway
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