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Prasannarāghava, circa 1700-1850.
प्रसन्नराघव
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Jayadeva, active 13th century.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Winds.
- Rāma (Hindu deity).
- Rāma.
- Sita (Hindu deity).
- Sita.
- Sanskrit poetry.
- Winds--Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- poems
- plays (performing arts compositions)
- dialogues
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (108 leaves) : paper ; 10 20 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 514
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript used for recitation or dramatic performance (a play) which draws on the Hindu mythology of the Rāmāyaṇa and includes a dialogue between the figures Rāma and Sītā who discuss the subtle qualities of a breeze, which serve as natural allegories of the qualities of poetry itself.
- Notes:
- Title from incipit (f. 109r).
- Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
- 108 leaves foliated 1-28, 30-109, upper left and lower right verso.
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout most of the manuscript; vertical margins marked with double red line on some folios.
- 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 2261 (UP 514).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 514
- OCLC:
- 847759778
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