Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Padmapurāṇa. Śivagītā

Other Title:

Śivagītāsūpaniṣatsu brahmavidya.

Subjects:

Siva (Hindu deity).
Rāma (Hindu deity).
Hindu mythology.
Dharma.

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Hymns.
Commentaries.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text is modeled after the Hindu epic text, the Bhagavadgītā, but is focused on the veneration of the deity Śiva instead of Kṛṣṇa and is set in an episode of the Rāmāyaṇa. Agastya instructs Rāma to perform the Pāśupata-vrata (vow) so that he may have a vision of Śiva. Śiva teaches Rāma about attaining self-realization and the different methods (yogas) to achieve it. Text from the last section (uttarakāṇḍa) of the Padmapurāṇa; commentary written by Keladīvyaṃ Kaṭādrināyaka (f. 117).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 117v) and marginal notes (f. 1r); alternate title Śivagītāsūpaniṣatsu brahmavidya from colophon (f. 117).
Written in 10-15 lines per leaf.
117 leaves foliated 1-117, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīpadmapurāṇe śivagītāsūpaniṣatsubrahmavidyāyāṃ yogaśāstre śivarāghavasaṃvāde mokṣayogonāmaṣoḍaśodhyāyaḥ // 16 // śrīrāmojayati (f. 117v).
Colophon (Commentary): iti śrīmadviśuddhādvaitasiddhāṃtapratiṣṭhāpanaikadhuraṃdharaśrīkeladīvyaṃ kaṭādrināyakavirattitāyāṃ śivagītāvyākhyāyāṃ ṣoḍaśodhyāyaḥ // yasyodyattkīrtipūrastribhuvanavivaraṃ pūrayitvā praśastāt // lokānullaṃ dhyābhitvāmurahararacitaṃ brahmaṇoṃḍaṃsamaṃtāt // (f. 117v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
Non-Latin script record.

Cited in:

Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 1123 (UP 772).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 772

Contributor:

Keladīvyaṃ Kaṭādrināyaka, commentator for written text.

OCLC:

785133829