Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa. Adhyātmarāmāyaṇa

Subjects:

Hindu mythology.
Rāma (Hindu deity).
Rāvaṇa (Hindu mythological character).
Sita (Hindu deity).
Siva (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Medieval retelling of the epic story of the Rāmāyaṇa, wherein the hero Rāma is identified with the universal spirit (adhyātma); unlike the original story, Rāma is nonviolent and his wife Sītā is hidden from the antagonist Rāvaṇa who kidnaps an illusory Sītā in her place; takes the form of a dialogue between the Hindu deities Śiva (as Maheśa) and Pārvatī (as Umā); traditionally ascribed to the fictional author Vyāsa.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 12-13 lines per leaf.
157 leaves foliated into two parts; Part 1, 1-77; Part 2, 1-80, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmadadhyātmarāmāyaṇe kiṣkiṃdhakāṃḍe navamaḥ sargaḥ // kiṣkiṃdhākāṃḍe śarveṇokte supuṇyenavasargaḥ // paṃcaśatāniṇlokāḥ / duritaharāḥ paṃcaśatānipaṃcāśat // ataḥ paraṃ sudarakāṃḍaṃ tasyāyaṃ mādyaślokaḥ // śatayojanavistīrṇaṃ samudramaka[??]layaṃ // lilāṃghayiṣurānaṃdasaṃdehomārutātmajaḥ // śake 1759 hemaktaṃbīnāmasaṃvatsare āśvīnaśuklatṛtīyāyāṃ iṃduvāsare mahādevabhaṭṭātmajena bālaṃbhaṭṭena likhitaṃ svārthaṃ parārthaṃ ca // śubhaṃbhava / (Part 1, f. 77v).
Colophon: iti uttarakāṃḍaḥ samāptaḥ śubhaṃ bhavatu // (Part 2, f. 80v).
Dated śaka 1759 (1837) (Part 1, f. 77v).
Scribe is Bālaṃ Bhaṭṭa the son of Mahādeva Bhaṭṭa (Part 1, f. 77v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
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 1158 (UP 311).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 311

Contributor:

Vaidyanātha Pāyaguṇḍe, active 18th century, scribe.

OCLC:

779548167