Details

Other Title:

Āryyā.
Rāmāryāśataka.

Subjects:

Rāma (Hindu deity).
Hinduism -- Prayers and devotions.
Archery in literature.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Prayers.
Devotional literature.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Mudgala Sūri (f. 18r); also refered to as Mahāmudgala Sūri (f. 18r); also known by Mudgala Bhaṭṭa, likely from the town of Mudgala in Karnataka state.

Summary:

Poem (kāvya) of 109 verses in āryā meter, praising the Hindu deity Rāma as the supreme lord of the universe and recounting his story, especially his prowess in archery.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 18r); alternate title Āryyā from incipit (f. 1r); second alternate title Rāmāryāśataka supplied by cataloger.
Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
18 leaves foliated 1-18, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmanmahāmudgalasūriviracitārāmāryāsamāptā // cha // // cha // // cha // // cha // // cha // śrīrāmacaṃdraḥ prīyatāṃ // śrīrāmārpaṇamastu // śaka 1660 kālayuktamāmasaṃvachacautravadi // paṃcamyāṃbudhe goviṃdabhaṭṭapeḍagrākareṇa likhitāṃ rāmāryāsamāptā // śrīrāmakṛṣṇāyanamaḥ // śrīrastu // cha // // cha // // cha // // cha // śrī // cha //// cha // śrī // (f. 18v).
Dated śaka 1660 (1738) (f. 18v).
Scribe is Govindabhaṭṭa Peḍagrākara (f. 18v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; double daṇḍas in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
May have been housed at an earlier time with Item 462, Item 463, and Item 464.
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 1722 (UP 461).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 461

Contributor:

Govindabhaṭṭa Peḍagrākara, scribe.

OCLC:

774531846