Details

Subjects:

Vālmīki. Rāmāyaṇa.
Mahābhārata.
Hindu mythology.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is to be use in the complex practice of simultaneous recitation as well as contemplation and is a discourse on the Sanskrit epic heroes Rāma and the Pāṇḍavas, main characters in the Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata respectively.

Notes:

Title from internal colophon (f. 6v).
Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.
Internal colophon: iti śrīrāghavapāṃḍavīye mahā[kā]vye prathamaḥ sargaḥ // (f. 6v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; numbers highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red 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 1929 (UP 540).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 540

OCLC:

854579135