Details

Standardized Title:

Rāmacaritamānasa. Kishkindhākāṇḍa. Selections

Other Title:

Rāmācaritakalikaluṣavidhvaṃsana.

Subjects:

Hindu mythology.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Animal stories.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Awadhi (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Fourth section of Tulasīdāsa's retelling of the Rāmāyaṇa; describes the encounter between the heroes Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa and the monkeys lead by King Sugrīva; his general Hanuman forms a special bond with Rāma, having recognized him as an incarnation of Viṣṇu; Rāma helps Sugrīva defeat his brother and the king of the monkeys sends his armies of monkeys and bears to help re-capture Rāma's wife Sītā; contains the account of Hanuman's leap across the ocean.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 11v); alternate title Rāmācaritakalikaluṣavidhvaṃsana from colophon (f. 11v).
Written in 12 lines per leaf.
11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmadrāmāyaṇe rāmācaritakalikaluṣavidhvaṃsane sakalasaubhāgyavimalavairāgyasaṃpādinī nāmacaturthosopānasamāptaṃ // saṃ[va]t // 1881 // kṛṣṇapakṣe śrāvanamāse // somavāra ayodhyāmadhye rāmako[ṭe] // liṣtaṃ dyanasyāmadāsa // ayodhyādāsajī [symbol] sītārāma [symbol] sītārā (f. 11v).
Dated saṃvat 1881 kṛṣṇapakṣe śrāvanamāse (Wednesday, August 11, 1824) (f. 11r).
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.
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 999 (UP 2575).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2575

OCLC:

771068653