Rāmāyaṇīyasāra, circa 1700-1850.
रामायणीयसार

Format:

• Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Recitations.
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
• Recitations--Religious aspects.
• Rāma (Hindu deity).

Genre:

• poems
• prayers (compositions)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
• Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (8 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 25 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 355

Place of Publication:

• circa 1700-1850.
• १७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for recitation and prayer and is meant to be the "essence" (sāra) of the Rāmāyaṇa, the well known Hindu epic. Manuscript consists of 35 verses of poetry.

Notes:

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
• 8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some verse markers highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double black line.
• Written in two different scribal hands, one possibly a student of the main hand.

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 2125 (UP 355).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 355

OCLC:

837660631