Details

Standardized Title:

Rāmāyaṇa. Bālakāṇḍa. Selections

Other Title:

Śataślokī rāmāyaṇa.

Subjects:

Epic literature, Sanskrit.
Nārada (Hindu mythology).

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; alternate title Śataślokī rāmāyaṇa from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
6 leaves foliated 1-5 (upper left and lower right verso), 6 (upper left and lower right recto).
Colophon: ity ārṣarīrāmāyaṇe ādikāvye vālmīkīye bālakāṃḍe śataślokīrāmāyaṇe nāradavākyasaṃkṣepo nāmaprathamaḥ sargaḥ // 1 // śrīsītārāmacaṃdrārpaṇam astu // śrīḥ (f. 6r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
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 998 (UP 2261).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2261

OCLC:

770074341