Rāmagītā, 1821.
रामगीता

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

Viṣṇubhaṭṭa Bāpaṭ, scribe.

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa. Adhyātmarāmāyaṇa. Rāmagītā

Language:

Marathi

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Hindu mythology.

Rāma (Hindu deity).

Rāma.

Lakṣmaṇa (Hindu deity).

Karma.

Genre:

poems

prayers (compositions)

commentaries

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (32 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 26 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 338

Place of Publication:

1821.

१८२१.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit and Marathi (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text from the last section (uttarakāṇḍa) of the Adhyātmarāmāyaṇa, chapter five, a conversation between Rāma and his brother Lakṣmaṇa where Rāma propounds the merits of knowledge over that of action (karma); contains a Marathi commentary running parallel (above and below) the main Sanskrit text.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).

Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.

32 leaves foliated 1-32, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: śrịrāmalakṣmaṇaprasann // śake 1743 vṛṣanāmasaṃvatsare kārtikaśuklāṣṭamyāṃ śṛguvāsaradinedaṃ pustakaṃ samāptaṃ // bāpaṭ ity upanāmakaviṣṇuṃbhaṭṭena likhitam // (f. 32r).

Dated śake 1743 (1821) (f. 32r).

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line; floral pattern on front cover (f. 1r).

Scribe is Viṣṇubhaṭṭa Bāpaṭ (f. 32r), a name common in Maharashtra.

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 1186 (UP 338).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 338

OCLC:

781291336