Ayodhyākāṇḍa, 1880.
सुन्दरकाण्ड

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

Rāmavarman, commentator for written text.

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa. Adhyātmarāmāyaṇa. Selections.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Hindu mythology.

Rāma (Hindu deity).

Rāma.

Sita (Hindu deity).

Sita.

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Śiva.

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Genre:

poems

prayers (compositions)

dialogues

commentaries

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Penn Provenance:

Appears to have been owned by a member of the Kānyakubja Brahman community (f. 1r).

Physical Description:

1 item (73 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 34 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 345

Place of Publication:

1880.

१८८०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Commentator named Rāma Śarmaṇ in the manuscript (f. 73r), but is typically named Rāma Varmaṇ; son of Himmati Varmaṇ (f. 73r).

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. Text contains a Sanskrit commentary (setu) by Rāmavarmaṇ running parallel (above and below) the main Sanskrit text.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Adhyātmarāmāyaṇasetu ayodhyākāṇḍa, related to commentary of Rāmavarmaṇ, from colophon (f. 73r).

Written in 6-8 lines per leaf.

73 leaves foliated 1-73, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīmad adhyātmarāmāyaṇe umāmaheśvarasaṃvāde ayodhyākāṃḍe navamaḥ sargaḥ // 9 // adhyātmarāmcarite 'yodhyākāṃḍe navānāṃ sargāṇāṃ saptaśatāni ślokāpuṇyāmokṣapradāḥ puṃsāṃ samāpta śubham astu // (f. 73r).

Colophon (Commentary): iti śrīmatsakalarājavipaduddharaṇasamarthetpādivirudāvalIvirājamānasya himmativarmaṇaḥ putrasya śrIrāmaśarmaṇaḥ kṛtāvadhyātmarāmāyaṇasetodhyākā[ṃ]ḍe navamaḥ sargaḥ // 5 // (f. 73r).

Dated saṃ[vat] 1937 (1880), although written in a different hand on the front cover (f. 1r).

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

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 1164 (UP 345).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 345

Contains:

Adhyātmarāmāyaṇasetu ayodhyākāṇḍa.

OCLC:

782069153