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Adhyātmarāmāyaṇa kiṣkindhākāṇḍa, 1853.
अध्यात्मरामायण किष्किन्धाकाण्ड
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 329
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Puranas. Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa. Adhyātmarāmāyaṇa. Selections.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Hindu mythology.
- Rāma (Hindu deity).
- Rāma.
- Sugrīva (Hindu mythology).
- Hanumān (Hindu deity).
- Hanumān.
- Śiva (Hindu deity).
- Śiva.
- SÌiva (Hindu deity).
- Genre:
- animal stories
- dialogues
- poems
- prayers (compositions)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (46 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 22 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 329
- Place of Publication:
- 1853.
- १८५३.
- 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 the fourth section (kāṇḍa) of the Adhyātmarāmāyaṇa, Rāma forms an alliance with the monkey king Sugrīva; Vālin dies; the monkey general Hanuman comes to prominence. Manuscript is missing beginning of text.
- Notes:
- Title from title page (f. 1r).
- Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
- 46 leaves foliated 1-46, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: idaṃ adhyātmarāmāyaṇaṃ targatakiṣkindhākāṇḍasya pustakaṃ ṣatcatvāriṃśatmatrātmakaṃ anaṃtaśiṣyasyātmārāmasya rāmabhaktasya jyotiṣyupanāmnā raghunāthena likhitaṃ tac chake 1775 pauṣkṛṣṇasaptabhyāṃ maṃ desūryodayavelāyāṃsamāptaṃ // rāma // (f. 46v).
- Dated śaka 1775 (1853) (f. 46v).
- Scribe is Raghunātha Jyotis (f. 46v) who lived in the village of Bāvadhana, now a district of the city of Pune, Maharashtra; for another manuscript written by the same scribe, see Ms. Coll. 390, Item 321.
- Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins;vertical margins marked with double red line.
- 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 1167 (UP 329).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 329
- OCLC:
- 780319613
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