Details

Standardized Title:

Rāmāyaṇa. Bālakāṇḍa. Selections

Subjects:

Nārada (Hindu mythology).
Epic literature, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

First chapter (sarga) of the first book (bālakāṇḍa) of the Rāmāyaṇa, a Hindu epic attributed to the sage Vālmīki; Vālmīki appears in the text in conversation with the mythical sage Nārada who relates the story of King Rāma to him; Vālmīki is moved by the death of a song bird and puts the epic story into śloka verse, as a result.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 23r).
Written in 6-8 lines per leaf.
23 leaves foliated 1-23, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: ity ārṣe śrīrāmāyaṇe ādikavye vālmīkīye bālakāṃde nāradavākye saṃkṣepo nāmapra[tha]maḥ sargaḥ // śrīsītārāmacaṃdrārpaṇam astū // (f. 22-23r).
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.
Notes on paper and bindings or wrappings.
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 996 (UP 352).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 352

OCLC:

770068927