Details

Standardized Title:

Raghuvaṃśa. Selections

Subjects:

Vālmīki. Rāmāyaṇa.
Hindu mythology.
Rāvaṇa (Hindu mythological character).
Rāma (Hindu deity).
Dharma.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Name written in manuscript as Kālitadāsa (f. 13r).

Summary:

Manuscript used for recitation or contemplation and is the twelfth section (sarga) of nineteen. Draws heavily from Hindu mythology and pantheons as well as assumes some knowledge of the storyline of the Rāmāyaṇa, its main characters, and gives a genealogical account of Rāma's dynastic background and lineage. Work is full of rich, poetic imagery of flora and fauna and references to courtly life and Hindu dharma and focuses, in particular, on the death of the demon Rāvaṇa.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 13v).
Written in 6-9 lines per leaf.
13 leaves foliated 1-13, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti raghuvaṃśe mahākāvye kālitadāsakṛte rāvaṇavadhonāmadvādaśasargaḥ // (f. 13r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

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 1951 (UP 1492).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1492.

OCLC:

913794805