Details

Standardized Title:

Raghuvaṃśa

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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 mythic background to and retelling of elements of the Hindu epic, the Rāmāyaṇa. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 132r).
Written in 11-15 lines per leaf.
93 leaves foliated 12-20, 31-36, 45-61, 72-132, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīraghuvaṃśe mahākāvye kavi śrīkālidāsakṛtau āgnivarṇasaṃbhogavarṇanaṃ nāma eko 'naviṃśaḥ sargaḥ samāptaḥ 16 śubhaṃbhavatu (f. 132r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout much of the manuscript; a few margins are marked with a single black vertical line; there are perhaps two or more scribal hands involved with the creation of this manuscript..

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Raghunātha Kāgalakara (f. 132v).

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 1961 (UP 1535).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1535.

Contributor:

Raghunātha Kāgalakara, former owner.

OCLC:

921893468