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Devī Gītā (देवीगीता)

A dialogue of the Devī Bhāgavata Purāṇa (देवीभागवतपुराण), often printed as chapters 31 through 40 of the seventh skandha. The Goddess teaches Himālaya, her father in that telling. She shows a cosmic form, in the way the eleventh chapter of the Bhagvad Gītā shows one, and then she teaches knowledge, yoga, and devotion, and the form is withdrawn. The hearer is a mountain who asked. The speaker is the power the mountain's daughter, in other tellings, will embody.

The Devī Māhātmya is the other great Goddess text on this shelf. It sits inside the Mārkaṇḍeya, often printed as chapters 81 through 93: three episodes, and a refrain that is sat. The Devī Bhāgavata is a different purāṇa. This shelf's eighteen profiles include the Bhāgavata and the Mārkaṇḍeya. The Devī Bhāgavata has no profile of its own here. This page is the map of the one dialogue. No śloka is supplied from memory to look like the text.

What the father is shown

• A form that gathers the world, so the hearer has to revise who he thought his daughter was.
• A teaching after the form closes: knowledge of the self, a yoga of attention, and devotion as the way a householder stays with what he has seen.
• The Māhātmya's work is narrative. Madhu and Kaiṭabha, Mahiṣa, Śumbha and Niśumbha, and the refrain between them. This dialogue's work is instruction.
• The page gives the shape of that instruction. It gives no vow, no count of recitation, and no offering.

नेपालीमा

देवीगीता देवीभागवतपुराणको संवाद हो, प्रायः सातौँ स्कन्धको अध्याय ३१ देखि ४० सम्म छापिने। देवीले हिमालयलाई सिकाउँछिन्, त्यो कथनमा उनका पिता। उनले विश्वरूप देखाउँछिन्, जसरी भगवद्गीताको एघारौँ अध्यायले देखाउँछ, अनि ज्ञान, योग र भक्ति सिकाउँछिन्, र रूप फिर्ता लिइन्छ। श्रोता सोध्ने पर्वत हुन्। वक्ता त्यो शक्ति हुन् जसलाई अर्का कथनमा पर्वतकी छोरीले धारण गर्नेछिन्।

देवीमाहात्म्य यो तहको अर्को ठूलो देवी-पाठ हो। त्यो मार्कण्डेयभित्र बस्छ, प्रायः अध्याय ८१ देखि ९३: तीन प्रसङ्ग, र राखिएको एक ध्रुवपद। देवीभागवत अर्कै पुराण हो। यो तहका अठार परिचयमा भागवत र मार्कण्डेय छन्। देवीभागवतको आफ्नै परिचय यहाँ छैन। यो पृष्ठ एउटा संवादको नक्सा हो। पाठजस्तो देखाउन सम्झनाबाट कुनै श्लोक हालिएको छैन।

Where it sits

Read the Māhātmya for the three episodes and the refrain. Read this page for the instruction to Himālaya. The Bhagvad Gītā is the poem whose shape this dialogue openly shares: grief or bewilderment, a teaching, a vision, a life to be lived afterward. The hearer there is Arjuna. The hearer here is a mountain.