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 the fourteenth section of a poetic work that deals with the exploits of the Raghu dynasty, important for mythic background to and retelling of elements of the Hindu epic, the Rāmāyaṇa.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 11r).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
Colophon: iti śrīraghuvaṃśe mahākāvye kālidāsakṛtau catardudaśasagasamāptaḥ // śrīrāmārapaṇam astu // (f. 11r).
11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left verso.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant phrases, verse divisions and numbers highlighted in red throughout; some vertical margins marked with double red line. Some folios are blue European paper.

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 1972 (UP 2709).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2709.

OCLC:

974037234