Rāmagītā, circa 1700-1850.
रामगीता

Format:

Manuscript

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa. Adhyātmarāmāyaṇa. Rāmagītā

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Hindu mythology.

Rāma (Hindu deity).

Lakṣmaṇa (Hindu deity).

Karma.

Genre:

prayers (compositions)

poems

dialogues

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (14 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 15 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 361

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (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).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 14v).

Written in 5 lines per leaf.

14 leaves foliated 1-14, upper left verso.

Colophon: iti śrīmadadhyātmarāmāyaṇe umāmaheśvarasaṃvāde [utta]rakāṇḍe śrīrāmagītānāmapaṃcamaḥ sargaḥ (f. 14v).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; manuscript appears to be cut, with partial, minor text loss, on right side.

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 1176 (UP 361).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 361

OCLC:

781860880