Details

Standardized Title:

Raghuvaṃśa. Selections

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Watermarks.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is employed for contemplation and recitation and is a poetic work that deals with the exploits of the Raghu dynasty, important as a mythic background to and retelling of elements of the Hindu epic, the Rāmāyaṇa.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 8v).
Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīdharaghuvaṃśe mahakāvye kālidāsakṛtau ṣaṣṭhamaḥ sargaḥ // (f. 8v).
Mistakes covered with yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; numbers highlighted in red throughout..Final folio written in a second scribal hand.
There is a watermark of a partial name or title.

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 1959 (UP 1531).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1531.

OCLC:

921893253