Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa. Adhyātmarāmāyaṇa. Rāmagītā

Other Title:

Rāmagītāstotra.

Subjects:

Rāma (Hindu deity).
Lakṣmaṇa (Hindu deity).
Siva (Hindu deity).
Karma.
Hindu mythology.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (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). Presented within a discussion between the Hindu deity Śiva and Pārvatī.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Rāmagītāstotra from colophon (f. 27r).
Written in 5 lines per leaf.
Colophon: iti śrībrahmāṃḍapurāṇe uttarakāṇḍe śrīmadadhyātmarāmāyaṇe / umāmaheśvarasaṃvāde uttarakāṃḍe śrīrāmagītāstotra saṃpūrṇaṃ // paṃcamādhyāyaḥ // cha // cha // (f. 26v-27r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line. Decorative second page design, which likely served as the original cover; outer cover (f. 1r), one folio (f. 9), and part of colophon (f. 27r) written in second hand; outer cover and one folio (f. 9) on different paper.
Small booklet bound on top edge, likely glued.
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 1179 (UP 2207).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2207

OCLC:

791456241