Jānakīpariṇaya, circa 1700-1850.
जानकीपरिणय

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Cakrakavi.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Hindu mythology.

Sita (Hindu deity)--Drama.

Sita.

Sita (Hindu deity).

Hindu mythology--Drama.

Rāma (Hindu deity)--Drama.

Rāma.

Rāma (Hindu deity).

Genre:

Drama.

plays (performing arts compositions)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (57 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 25 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1574

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Drama in 7 acts about the marriage of the Hindu princess Sītā to the hero Rāma.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).

Written in 10-13 lines per leaf.

57 leaves foliated 1-13, 15-58, upper left and lower right verso.

Title page: jānakīpariṇayaṃ nāmanāṭakam (f. 1r).

Internal colophon: iti mahāpārśvenasahaniṣkrāṃtaḥ / ṣaṣṭhokaḥ // 6 // (f. 53v).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red through most of manuscript (f. 1-13, 15-36).

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 2255 (UP 1574).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1574.

OCLC:

927417259