Details

Standardized Title:

Udārarāghava

Subjects:

Vālmīki. Rāmāyaṇa.
Sita (Hindu deity).
Rāma (Hindu deity).
Hindu mythology.
Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism -- India.
Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
India.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for recitation and contemplation and is a 14th century poem (kāvya) dedicated to retelling the Hindu epic story of the Rāmāyaṇa. Manuscript is incomplete, comprised of the third sarga (section) and the opening verse and a half of the fourth sarga. The third sarga deals with the marriage of Sītā to Rāma. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 33v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
9 leaves foliated 22, 26-33, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīsukhasvapnākalitaraghunāthadattavaraprasādasahajasārasvataśrīśākalāpadāṃkamādhavasudhītanayakavimallamallācāryaviracite udārarāghave mahākāvye sītāpariṇayonāmatṛtīyaḥ sargaḥ // (f. 33v).
A single wooden board supports the manuscript.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red 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 2052 (UP 2434).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2434.

OCLC:

965446825