Text is modeled after the Hindu epic text, the Bhagavadgītā, but is focused on the veneration of the deity Śiva instead of Kṛṣṇa and is set in an episode of the Rāmāyaṇa. Agastya instructs Rāma to perform the Pāśupata-vrata (vow) so that he may have a vision of Śiva. Śiva teaches Rāma about attaining self-realization and the different methods (yogas) to achieve it. Text from the last section (uttarakāṇḍa) of the Padmapurāṇa; commentary written by Keladīvyaṃ Kaṭādrināyaka (f. 117).
Rāma; Siva; Keladīvyaṃ Kaṭādrināyaka, commentator for written text.
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Title from colophon (f. 117v) and marginal notes (f. 1r); alternate title Śivagītāsūpaniṣatsu brahmavidya from colophon (f. 117).; Non-Latin script record.; 117 leaves foliated 1-117, upper left and lower right verso.; Written in 10-15 lines per leaf.; 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 line.; Colophon: iti śrīpadmapurāṇe śivagītāsūpaniṣatsubrahmavidyāyāṃ yogaśāstre śivarāghavasaṃvāde mokṣayogonāmaṣoḍaśodhyāyaḥ // 16 // śrīrāmojayati (f. 117v).; Colophon (Commentary): iti śrīmadviśuddhādvaitasiddhāṃtapratiṣṭhāpanaikadhuraṃdharaśrīkeladīvyaṃ kaṭādrināyakavirattitāyāṃ śivagītāvyākhyāyāṃ ṣoḍaśodhyāyaḥ // yasyodyattkīrtipūrastribhuvanavivaraṃ pūrayitvā praśastāt // lokānullaṃ dhyābhitvāmurahararacitaṃ brahmaṇoṃḍaṃsamaṃtāt // (f. 117v).; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
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