Adhyātmarāmāyaṇa, 1837.
अध्यात्मरामायण

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

Vaidyanātha Pāyaguṇḍe, active 18th century, scribe.

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa. Adhyātmarāmāyaṇa

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Hindu mythology.

Rāma (Hindu deity).

Rāma.

Rāvaṇa (Hindu mythological character).

Rāvaṇa.

Sita (Hindu deity).

Sita.

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Śiva.

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Genre:

poems

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (157 leaves) : paper ; 14 x 29 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 311

Place of Publication:

1837.

१८३७.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Medieval retelling of the epic story of the Rāmāyaṇa, wherein the hero Rāma is identified with the universal spirit (adhyātma); unlike the original story, Rāma is nonviolent and his wife Sītā is hidden from the antagonist Rāvaṇa who kidnaps an illusory Sītā in her place; takes the form of a dialogue between the Hindu deities Śiva (as Maheśa) and Pārvatī (as Umā); traditionally ascribed to the fictional author Vyāsa.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).

Written in 12-13 lines per leaf.

157 leaves foliated into two parts; Part 1, 1-77; Part 2, 1-80, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīmadadhyātmarāmāyaṇe kiṣkiṃdhakāṃḍe navamaḥ sargaḥ // kiṣkiṃdhākāṃḍe śarveṇokte supuṇyenavasargaḥ // paṃcaśatāniṇlokāḥ / duritaharāḥ paṃcaśatānipaṃcāśat // ataḥ paraṃ sudarakāṃḍaṃ tasyāyaṃ mādyaślokaḥ // śatayojanavistīrṇaṃ samudramaka[??]layaṃ // lilāṃghayiṣurānaṃdasaṃdehomārutātmajaḥ // śake 1759 hemaktaṃbīnāmasaṃvatsare āśvīnaśuklatṛtīyāyāṃ iṃduvāsare mahādevabhaṭṭātmajena bālaṃbhaṭṭena likhitaṃ svārthaṃ parārthaṃ ca // śubhaṃbhava / (Part 1, f. 77v).

Colophon: iti uttarakāṃḍaḥ samāptaḥ śubhaṃ bhavatu // (Part 2, f. 80v).

Dated śaka 1759 (1837) (Part 1, f. 77v).

Scribe is Bālaṃ Bhaṭṭa the son of Mahādeva Bhaṭṭa (Part 1, f. 77v).

Mistakes 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 1158 (UP 311).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 311

OCLC:

779548167