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.
Commentaries.
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. Commentary (ṭīkā) running above and below the main text by Rāmavarman son of Himantivarman, pupil of Nāgeśa (f. 19r).

Notes:

Title from title page (f. [i] recto); title of commentary Rāmagītāṭīkā from end title page (f. 19v).
Written in 10-14 lines per leaf.
20 leaves foliated [i], 1-19, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmatsakalarājavipat utdharaṇasamarthety ādivirudāvalīvirājamānasya himaṃtivarmaṇaḥ putrasya śrīrāmavarmaṇaḥ kṛtāv adhyātmarāmāyaṇasyaitau uttarakāṃḍe śrīrāmagītāṭīkāpaṃcamasargaḥ // om̐ tat sat // cha // cha // (f. 19r).
Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; main text as well as other significant syllables, words, and phrases in commentary highlighted in red throughout; 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 1185 (UP 2258).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2258

Contributor:

Rāmavarman.

Contains:

Rāmagītāṭīkā.

OCLC:

793104916