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Title

Sūtasaṃhitā
सूतसंहिता

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2316
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958066003503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/804683254
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5806600

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript used for consultation on a number of topics that include rituals, rites, modes of worship, mythology, and other elements, primarily centered on the Hindu deity Śiva. May have been compiled by the Pāśupata sect of Śaivism and composed around the 6th century A.D. Reference to the figure Bhairava, a horrific form of Śiva, along with references to the Bhairavas (underlings of Śiva). Mention of the Pāśupatas is made and their rite of smearing ash on their bodies and wearing rudrakṣa beads, sacred to Śiva. Text is divided into four saṃhitās (sections) and contains a version of the Brahmagītā in the final section (Yajñavaibhavakhaṇḍa).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 208r).
   
• Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 209 leaves foliated [i], 1-208, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• 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 or black line.
   
• Manuscript encased by two dark brown wooden boards; the bottom board is split, but held together with metal pieces nailed into wood.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

1 item (209 leaves) : 11 x 29 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīskaṃdapurāṇe sūtasaṃhitāyāṃ yajñavaibhavakhaṃḍasyoparibhāge sūtagItāyaāṃ aṣṭamodhyāyaḥ // śrīsāṃbāyanamaḥ // śrīgurubhyonamaḥ // śrīśivāya namaḥ // (f. 208r).

Subjects topical

• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu mythology
• Bhairava (Hindu deity)
• Śaivism
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Tantrism
• Pāśupatas

Genres

• Poems
• Hymns
• Prayers
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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