Details

Subjects:

Krishna (Hindu deity).
Rāma (Hindu deity).
Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Commentaries.
Watermarks.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for contemplation, study, and recitation practice, and is a poetic praise of the Hindu gods Rāma and Kṛṣṇa in half stanzas dedicated to each god throughout. These two gods are considered avatāras of the god Viṣṇu. Manuscript contains an extensive, unidentified commentary, possibly by the author of the principal work, running parallel above and below the root text.

Notes:

Title from abbreviations in margins.
Written in 8-12 lines per leaf.
Watermarks of parts of a coat of arms.
19 leaves foliated 1-19, upper left and lower right verso.
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 quadruple red line; some margins have doodles of floral pattern or crosses.

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 2018 (UP 2714).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2714.

OCLC:

974037806