Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa. Adhyātmarāmāyaṇa. Selections.

Subjects:

Hindu mythology.
Rāma (Hindu deity).
Rāvaṇa (Hindu mythological character).
Sita (Hindu deity).
Siva (Hindu deity).
Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages -- India.
Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages.
India.

Form/Genre:

Dialogues.
Poems.
Prayers.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Medieval retelling of the epic story of the Rāmāyaṇa, wherein the hero Rāma is identified with the universal spirit (adhyātma) and is nonviolent; narrative takes the form of a dialogue between the Hindu deities Śiva (as Maheśa) and Pārvatī (as Umā); traditionally ascribed to the legendary author Vyāsa. In this sixth section (kāṇḍa) of the Adhyātmarāmāyaṇa the text describes the march of Rāma to the island of Laṅkā with the monkey army and references pilgrimage sites such as Rāmeśvara and Setubandha.

Notes:

Title from explicit (f. 93v).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
92 leaves foliated 2-93, upper left and lower right verso.
Explicit: iti śrīmadadhyātmarāmāyaṇe umāmaheśvarasaṃvāde yuddhakāṃḍe śoḍaśaḥ sargaḥ // 16 // (f. 93v).
Colophon: idaṃ ekādaśaśatādhikacatuḥ ṣaṣṭiślokātmakaṃ yuddhakāṃḍaṃ jyotiṣyupanāmmābāvadhanagrāmasthitena raghunāthena likhitvā ātmārāmārpaṇaṃ kṛtaṃ // tat śake 1776 ānaṃdanāmābde bijayādaśamyāṃ samāptaṃ // śrīsītāramaṇārpaṇam astu // (f. 93v).
Dated śaka 1776 (1854) (f. 93v).
Scribe is Raghunātha Jyotis who lived in the village of Bāvadhana (f. 93v), now a district of the city of Pune, Maharashtra; for another manuscript written by the same scribe, see Ms. Coll. 390, Item 329.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line (f. 1-14).
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 1170 (UP 321).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 321

Contributor:

Raghunātha Jyotis, scribe.

OCLC:

780320445