Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa. Adhyātmarāmāyaṇa. Rāmagītā

Subjects:

Hindu mythology.
Rāma (Hindu deity).
Lakṣmaṇa (Hindu deity).
Karma.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Prayers.
Commentaries.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit and Marathi (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text from the last section (uttarakāṇḍa) of the Adhyātmarāmāyaṇa, chapter five, a conversation between Rāma and his brother Lakṣmaṇa where Rāma propounds the merits of knowledge over that of action (karma); contains a Marathi commentary running parallel (above and below) the main Sanskrit text.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
32 leaves foliated 1-32, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: śrịrāmalakṣmaṇaprasann // śake 1743 vṛṣanāmasaṃvatsare kārtikaśuklāṣṭamyāṃ śṛguvāsaradinedaṃ pustakaṃ samāptaṃ // bāpaṭ ity upanāmakaviṣṇuṃbhaṭṭena likhitam // (f. 32r).
Dated śake 1743 (1821) (f. 32r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line; floral pattern on front cover (f. 1r).
Scribe is Viṣṇubhaṭṭa Bāpaṭ (f. 32r), a name common in Maharashtra.
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 1186 (UP 338).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 338

Contributor:

Viṣṇubhaṭṭa Bāpaṭ, scribe.

OCLC:

781291336