Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2178: Brahmagītā University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2178: Brahmagītā 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 © 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 colophon (f. 96r-96v). Written in 7-8 lines per leaf. 96 leaves foliated 1-96, upper left and lower right verso. Dated śaka 1747 (1825) (f. 96v). Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; accents for cadence added in red throughout. Non-Latin script record. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2178 9958065933503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/804683189 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5806593 Manuscript used for private consultation and reflection. Text defines different ways of performing pūjās, vows (vratas), praises (stotras), and celebrations of pilgrimage sites, as well as having philosophical concerns, which include the knowledge of the deity Śiva (śivajñāna) and that of the universal concept Brahman (brahmavidya). Text sees itself as the "essence" of all upaniṣads although representing a medieval text; possibly composed by the Pāśupata sect of Śaivism around the 6th century A.D. In Sanskrit Brahmagītā ब्रह्मगीता Colophon: om̐ tat sad iti śrīmanmahāpurāṇe skāṃde sūtasaṃhitāyāṃ yajñavaibhavakhaṃḍasyoparibhāge vedārthanirūpaṇe brahmagĩtāsūpaniṣatsubrahmavidyāyāṃ sarvaśāstrārthasaṃgraho nāmadvādaśodhyāyaḥ 12 śrīkṛṣṇā [*] 1083 ṣake 1747 pārthivanāmasaṃvatsare aśvinavadya 4 ravivāraprāthaḥ kālī [*] sakāsvahakāraṃcalopayitvāprayojayet // (f. 96v).

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 1 item (96 leaves) : 11 x 22 cm Siva (Hindu deity) Śaivism Brahman Devotional literature, Sanskrit Puja (Hinduism) Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages--India Hindu philosophy Pāśupatas Poems Prayers Hymns Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century Manuscripts--India--19th century