Prasannarāghava, circa 1700-1850.
प्रसन्नराघव

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