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Īśvara Gītā (ईश्वरगीता)

The dialogue that opens the second part of the Kūrma Purāṇa, the Uparibhāga, as that profile already says. Śiva teaches the sages. The shape is kin to the Bhagvad Gītā: a teacher, a company of hearers, a vision, and a teaching on knowledge and devotion. The kinship of shape is the fact a reader can check by reading. Which book learned from which is a question this shelf leaves open. The profile's other point stands with it. A purāṇa the Padma list calls tamas carries a Śaiva teaching a devotee may love. The label and the page can be seen at once.

The tortoise, Viṣṇu as Kūrma, is the purāṇa's speaker at the churning. The Īśvara Gītā is Śiva's voice inside that book. Two gods, one printed text, and a second part that begins by letting Śiva teach. The dialogue is mapped here. No śloka is supplied from memory to look like the text.

What the sages are given

• A Śaiva account of the self and of the Lord, spoken to hearers who had come for a purāṇa's lore.
• A vision, so the teaching has something larger than a sentence to survive.
• Devotion and knowledge named together, in a book whose outer frame is the support under the churning.
• A reminder, which the profile already prints, that the Padma's guṇa column does not describe this dialogue.

नेपालीमा

ईश्वरगीता कूर्मपुराणको दोस्रो भाग, उपरिभाग, खोल्ने संवाद हो, जसरी त्यो परिचयले पहिले नै भनेको छ। शिवले ऋषिहरूलाई सिकाउँछन्। आकार भगवद्गीतासँग नातेदार छ: एक गुरु, श्रोताहरूको समूह, एक दर्शन, र ज्ञान तथा भक्तिको शिक्षा। आकारको नाता पाठकले पढेर जाँच्न सक्ने तथ्य हो। कुन पुस्तकले कुनबाट सिक्यो भन्ने प्रश्न यो तहले खुला राख्छ। परिचयको अर्को कुरा सँगै उभिन्छ। पद्मको सूचीले तमस् भनेको पुराणमा शैव शिक्षा छ, जसलाई भक्तले प्रेम गर्न सक्छ। लेबल र पृष्ठ एकैचोटि देखिन्छन्।

कछुवा, कूर्म रूपका विष्णु, मन्थनमा पुराणका वक्ता हुन्। ईश्वरगीता त्यो पुस्तकभित्र शिवको स्वर हो। दुई देवता, एउटै छापिएको पाठ, र दोस्रो भाग जुन शिवलाई सिकाउन दिएर सुरु हुन्छ। संवाद यहाँ नक्सामा छ। पाठजस्तो देखाउन सम्झनाबाट कुनै श्लोक हालिएको छैन।

Where it sits

The Śiva Gītā is Śiva teaching Rāma, in the company of the Padma Purāṇa. The Śiva Purāṇa is the seven saṃhitās. The Kashmir shelves, the Śiva Sūtra and the Vijñāna Bhairava, are sūtras. The Īśvara Gītā is the Kūrma's doctrinal door. Four Śaiva teachings, four books.