Details

Standardized Title:

Raghuvaṃśa. Selections

Other Title:

Raghusaptamasarga

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 seventh 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. Reference is made in the post-colophon notes to the sacred city of Kāśī (Vārāṇasī) and the deity Viśveśvara who dwells there.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 13r); alternate title Raghusaptamasarga from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
Colophon: iti raghuvaṃśe mahākāvye kavi śrīkālidāsakṛtau ajavivāhonāmasaptamasagaḥ // (f. 13r).
13 leaves foliated 1-13, 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. 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 1973 (UP 2710).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2710.

OCLC:

974037356