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Adhyātmarāmāyaṇa ayodhyakāṇḍa, 1854.
अध्यात्मरामायण अयोध्यकाण्ड
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 328
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Puranas. Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa. Adhyātmarāmāyaṇa. Selections.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Hindu mythology.
- Rāma (Hindu deity).
- Rāma.
- Daśaratha.
- Śiva (Hindu deity).
- Śiva.
- SÌiva (Hindu deity).
- Genre:
- dialogues
- poems
- prayers (compositions)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (54 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 22 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 328
- Place of Publication:
- 1854.
- १८५४.
- 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. In this second section (kāṇḍa) of the Adhyātmarāmāyaṇa, Rāma is exiled to the forest and his father dies. Manuscript is missing the beginning of text.
- Notes:
- Title from back title page (f. 58v).
- Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
- 54 leaves foliated 6-53, 53-57, [58], upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrīmadhyātmarāmāyaṇe umāmaeśvarasaṃvāde ayodhyāṃ kāṃḍe navamaḥ sargaḥ // 1 // adhyātmarāmacarite yodhyākāṃḍe navānāṃ sargāṇāṃ mokṣapradaḥ // ayodhyākāṃḍasamāptaḥ // śake 1776 // ānaṃdanāmasaṃvatsare jyeṣṭemāse ṣuklapakṣe paurṇamāsyāṃ śṛnu maṃdavāsare mūḷena kṣatre tad dinaṃ pustakaṃ samāptaṃ // navāthye ity upanāmakaviśvanāthasya sūnūviṣṇūbhaṭena likhitaṃ svārthaṃ paropakārārthaṃ // (f. 57v).
- Dated śaka 1776 (1854) (f. 57v).
- Scribe is Viṣṇubhaṭa Navāthye, son of Viśvanātha Navāthye (f. 57v).
- Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins;vertical margins marked with double red line (f. 1-33); folios 6-33 on different paper.
- 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 1163 (UP 328).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 328
- OCLC:
- 780319597
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