Details

Standardized Title:

Sañjīvanī (Raghuvaṃśa)

Subjects:

Kālidāsa. Raghuvaṃśa.
Elephants in literature.
Brahma (Hindu deity).
Siva (Hindu deity).
Sanskrit poetry.
Hindu poetry.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Late 14th- to early 15th-century commentator from the Andhra region (Andhra Pradesh).

Summary:

Manuscript is employed for contemplation and study and is a commentary on the Raghuvaṃśa by the 5th century poet Kālidāsa, which deals with the exploits of the Raghu dynasty. Manuscript comprises the fifth book or sarga of the work. Here king Raghu worships and wins boons from the Hindu deity Brahma and encounters the deity Śiva as well as encounters an elephant emerging from a stream. The manuscript is missing some of the initial folios (f. 2-5) and contains an unusual break near the middle of the work. The first part of the manuscript before this break (f. 1, 6-11r) consists of the first 49 verses of commentary and contains the 50th verse of Kālidāsa's text, rather than the commentary for it (not seen elsewhere in the manuscript). The manuscript then begins on the verso with a completely new, unrelated purāṇic work in a different hand. This additional text begins: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ sūtauvāca // yuvāthavṛddho vā daridro durbalo 'pi vā (f. 11v). After this break in the flow of the text, the manuscript continues with Mallinātha's commentary, starting at verse 50.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Written in 8-12 lines per leaf.
12 leaves foliated 1, 6-16, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with triple red and black line or no lines (f. 8).
Written by two different hands; the second hand interspersed with the first; possibly a pupil of the first, main hand.

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 1992 (UP 497).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 497

OCLC:

844237989