Adhyātmarāmāyaṇa uttarakāṇḍa, circa 1700-1850.
अध्यात्मरामायण उत्तरकण्ड

Format:

Manuscript

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa. Adhyātmarāmāyaṇa. Selections.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Hindu mythology.

Rāma (Hindu deity).

Lakṣmaṇa (Hindu deity).

Sita (Hindu deity).

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Genre:

dialogues

poems

prayers (compositions)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (61 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 22 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 323

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

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) 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. This last section (kāṇḍa) of the Adhyātmarāmāyaṇa contains a description of the banishment of Sītā; fifth chapter of text, sometimes referred to as the Rāmagītā, is a conversation between Rāma and his brother Lakṣmaṇa. Text lacks the final folio and colophon is incomplete.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 62v).

Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.

61 leaves foliated 1-52, 54-62, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīmadadhyātmarāmāyaṇe umāmaheśvarasaṃvāda uttara[kaṇḍe] [. . .] // (f. 62v).

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line; folios 54-58 written on different paper in second scribal hand.

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 1171 (UP 323).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 323

OCLC:

780320514