Details

Standardized Title:

Ribhu gīta.

Other Title:

Śivarahasya.

Subjects:

Vedas. Yajurveda.
Śaivism.
Rudra (Hindu deity).
Siva (Hindu deity).
Advaita.
Vedanta.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.
Hindu mythology.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, prayer, and recitation and is a commentary on an ancient Vedic work, the Śatarudriya, dedicated to the hundred forms of the Vedic god Rudra, a antecedent to the Hindu deity Śiva, and considered to be part of the Yajurveda. The commentary, influenced by the Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta school of philosophy, contains an exploration of ideas, rites, ceremonies, and mythology related to the Hindu deity Śiva. Work also contains some of the root text, the Śatarudriya, running parallel between lines of commentary.

Notes:

Title from title abbreviations throughout; alternate title Śivarahasya, from opening folio (f. 1v).
Written in 12-20 lines per leaf.
58 leaves foliated 1-58, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

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 95 (UP 1150).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1150

OCLC:

903124015