Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa. Adhyātmarāmāyaṇa. Rāmagītā

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, in which Rāma propounds the merits of knowledge over that of action (karma). Presented as a dialogue between Śiva and Pārvatī.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 10r).
Written in 8-11 lines per leaf.
10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrī madadhyātmarāmāyaṇe umāmaheśvara saṃvāde uttarakāṃḍe śrīrāmagītā nāmapaṃcamodhyāyaḥ // 5 // śrīsītārāmacaṃdrārpaṇamastu // namāmigaṃgetavapādapaṃkajāṃ / sūrāsūrair vaṃditīdi[vyarūpaṃ] // [bhaktīṃ camakīṃ cadāma] bhāvānusāraṇasadānarāṇāṃm // 1 // (f. 10r).
Mistakes blacked out or written over in red; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.
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 1180 (UP 2223).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2223

OCLC:

793002468