Rāmacaritamānasa, 1824-1825.
रामचरितमानस

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Tulasīdāsa, 1532-1623.

Contributor:

De, Jānak, scribe.

Language:

Awadhi

Subjects (All):

Rāma (Hindu deity).

Rāma.

Hindu mythology.

Devotional literature, Hindi.

Genre:

poems

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (182 leaves) : paper ; 16 x 33 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2615

Place of Publication:

1824-1825.

१८२४-१८२५.

Language Note:

In Awadhi (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Tulasīdāsa's retelling of the epic Rāmāyaṇa in Awadhi (a language related to Hindi). Contains only four of the seven kāṇḍs (books) of this work, lacking the Ayodha, Kiśkindhā, and Laṅkā kāṇḍs.

Contents:

Bāl kāṇḍ (Part 1, f. 1-93)

Araṇya kāṇḍ (Part 2, f. 1-29)

Sundar kāṇḍ (Part 3, f. 1-18)

Uttar kāṇḍ (Part 4, f. 1-42).

Notes:

Title from colophon (Part 4, f. 42r).

Scribe is Jānak De at the Hari temple on the banks of the Ganges River.

Written in 11-13 lines per leaf.

182 leaves foliated 1-93, 1-29, 1-18, 1-42, middle left and lower right verso.

Dated saṃvat 1881-1882 (1824-1825) (Part 3, f. 18r and Part 4, f. 42r).

Colophon: iti śrīrāmacaritamānase sakalakalikalukhavidhaṃ sane aviralibhaktisapādinīnāma saptamopāna // śrī uttarakāṃḍa saṃpūrṇaṃ samāptaṃ idaṃ pustakaṃ likhataṃ harimaṃdire gaṃgātaṭe śrījānake de se saṃvat 1881 māsasavana (Part 4, f. 42r).

Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant phrases and verse divisions in red throughout.

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 5597 (UP 2615).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2615.

OCLC:

971022792