Details

Standardized Title:

Raghuvaṃśa. Selections

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.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 11r).
Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
11 leaves foliated [1-11], upper left and lower right verso; the edges of the manuscript have been cut and many partial numbers appear.
Colophon: iti raghuvaṃśemahākāvye kālidāsakṛtau bhāvāgagamanavarṇato ekādaśasargaḥ // (f. 11r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, numbers, or phrases highlighted in red.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Viṣṇubhaṭṭa Sahasrabudhya (f. 11r).

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 1963 (UP 1546).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1546.

Contributor:

Viṣṇubhaṭṭa Sahasrabudhya, former owner.

OCLC:

921936947