Details

Standardized Title:

Rāmāyaṇa. Selections

Subjects:

Epic literature, Sanskrit.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hanumān (Hindu deity).
Rāma (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Prayers.
Hymns.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Praise of the thousand names of the Hindu monkey deity Hanuman; said to be conveyed by the Hindu deity and earthly king Rāma; for use in prayer, meditation, and recitation; unrelated verses in another hand on front of text written with folio turned vertically, such as a praise of the Vedanta philosopher Rāmānujā (f. 1r).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 17r-17v).
Written in 8 lines per leaf.
17 leaves foliated 1-17, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmadrāmāyaṇe ādikāvye vālmīkīye hanumatsahasranāmasaṃpūrṇaṃ // (f. 17r-17v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
Non-Latin script record.

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 1005 (UP 2573).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2573

OCLC:

770333213