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Gurugītā, circa 1700-1850.
गुरुगीता
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2284
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Gurugītā.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Guru worship (Rite).
- Hinduism.
- Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
- Guru worship (Rite)--Hinduism.
- Puja (Hinduism).
- Śiva (Hindu deity).
- Śiva.
- SÌiva (Hindu deity).
- Parvati (Hindu deity).
- Parvati.
- dialogues.
- Genre:
- poems
- prayers (compositions)
- hymns
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (23 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 21 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2284
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript used for private or public recitation and prayer in praise and worship of a spiritual teacher or guru. Claims to be from the Skandapurāṇa and is presented as a discourse between the goddess Umā (a form of Pārvatī) and Maheśavara (a form of Śiva).
- Notes:
- Title from title page (f. 1r).
- Written in 7 lines per leaf.
- 23 leaves foliated 1-23, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrīskaṃdapurāṇe umāmaheśvarasaṃvāde gurugītāsamāptaḥ // (f. XX).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line. Front and back folios are reinforced with blue paper on the outer sides (f. 1r and f. 23v).
- Non-Latin script record.
- 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 1556 (UP 2284).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2284
- OCLC:
- 801654807
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