Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1150: Rudrabhāṣya University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1150: Rudrabhāṣya are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is ©2018 University of Pennsylvania Books & Manuscripts and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. 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. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1150 9963505703503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/903124009 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6350570 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. In Sanskrit Rudrabhāṣya रुद्रभाष्य

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 1 item (58 leaves) : 17 x 36 cm Śaivism Rudra (Hindu deity) Siva (Hindu deity) Advaita Vedanta Hindu philosophy Philosophy, Indic Hindu mythology Commentaries Treatises Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century Manuscripts--India--18th century Manuscripts--India--19th century