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Title

Rudrabhāṣya
रुद्रभाष्य

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1150
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963505703503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/903124009
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6350570

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

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.
   

Extent

1 item (58 leaves) : 17 x 36 cm

Support

Paper

Subjects topical

• Śaivism
• Rudra (Hindu deity)
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Advaita
• Vedanta
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic
• Hindu mythology

Genres

• Commentaries
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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