Details

Subjects:

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
Krishna (Hindu deity).
Rāma (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Commentaries.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Author named Daivasūryya Paṇḍita in the colophon (f. 24v); Indian astrologer.

Summary:

Manuscript is used for a gloss and commentary of the work Rāmakṛṣṇavilomakāvya, which is a poem written to be read backwards and forwards in praise of the Hindu gods Rāma and Kṛṣṇa, forms of the god Viṣṇu. According to the colophon the gloss (ṭippaṇa) is written by the author himself.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 24v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
21 leaves foliated 4-24, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmaddaivasūryyapaṇḍitaviracitaṃ sadṛippaṇaṃrāmakṛṣṇavilomakāvyaṃ sapūrṇam // śrīrāmakṛṣṇaḥ govi[ṃ]dadāmodaramodaramād dhavetī // rāmakṛṣṇagopālādāmā // (f. 24v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.

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 2021 (UP 532).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 532

OCLC:

851097025