Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa. Adhyātmarāmāyaṇa. Selections.

Subjects:

Hindu mythology.
Rāma (Hindu deity).
Sita (Hindu deity).
Siva (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Commentator named Rāma Śarmaṇ in the manuscript (f. 73r), but is typically named Rāma Varmaṇ; son of Himmati Varmaṇ (f. 73r).

Summary:

Medieval retelling of the epic story of the Rāmāyaṇa, wherein the hero Rāma is identified with the universal spirit (adhyātma) and is nonviolent; narrative takes the form of a dialogue between the Hindu deities Śiva (as Maheśa) and Pārvatī (as Umā); traditionally ascribed to the legendary author Vyāsa. In this second section (kāṇḍa) of the Adhyātmarāmāyaṇa, Rāma is exiled to the forest and his father dies. Text contains a Sanskrit commentary (setu) by Rāmavarmaṇ running parallel (above and below) the main Sanskrit text.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Adhyātmarāmāyaṇasetu ayodhyākāṇḍa, related to commentary of Rāmavarmaṇ, from colophon (f. 73r).
Written in 6-8 lines per leaf.
73 leaves foliated 1-73, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmad adhyātmarāmāyaṇe umāmaheśvarasaṃvāde ayodhyākāṃḍe navamaḥ sargaḥ // 9 // adhyātmarāmcarite 'yodhyākāṃḍe navānāṃ sargāṇāṃ saptaśatāni ślokāpuṇyāmokṣapradāḥ puṃsāṃ samāpta śubham astu // (f. 73r).
Colophon (Commentary): iti śrīmatsakalarājavipaduddharaṇasamarthetpādivirudāvalIvirājamānasya himmativarmaṇaḥ putrasya śrIrāmaśarmaṇaḥ kṛtāvadhyātmarāmāyaṇasetodhyākā[ṃ]ḍe navamaḥ sargaḥ // 5 // (f. 73r).
Dated saṃ[vat] 1937 (1880), although written in a different hand on the front cover (f. 1r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
Non-Latin script record.

Penn Provenance:

Appears to have been owned by a member of the Kānyakubja Brahman community (f. 1r).

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 1164 (UP 345).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 345

Contributor:

Rāmavarman, commentator for written text.

Contains:

Adhyātmarāmāyaṇasetu ayodhyākāṇḍa.

OCLC:

782069153