Details

Standardized Title:

Raghuvaṃśa. Selections

Subjects:

Vālmīki. Rāmāyaṇa.
Hindu mythology.
Rāma (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is employed for contemplation and study and is a poetic work that deals with the exploits of the Raghu dynasty, important as a kind of mythic background to and retelling of elements of the Hindu epic, the Rāmāyaṇa. Manuscript contains the commentary by Mallinātha running parallel above and below the root text.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 13r).
Written in 10-13 lines per leaf.
13 leaves foliated 1-13, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīraghu // vaṃśe mahākāvyakālidāsakṛtau rāmābhigamanonāmatrayodaśaḥ sargaḥ // 13 // (f. 13r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with quadruple 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 1978 (UP 1514).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1514.

Contains:

Mallinātha. Sañjīvanī (Raghuvaṃśa). Selections.

OCLC:

913792974