Raghuvaṃśa. Sarga 3-4, 1769.
रघुवंश. सर्ग ३-४,

Format:

• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Kālidāsa.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Hindu mythology.
• Vālmīki. Rāmāyaṇa--Early works to 1800.
• Hindu mythology--Early works to 1800.
• Rāma (Hindu deity)--Early works to 1800.
• Rāma (Hindu deity).

Genre:

• poems
• watermarks
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
• Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (20 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 20 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2703

Place of Publication:

• 1769.
• १७६९.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is employed for contemplation and study and is the third and fourth sections of a poetic work that deals with the exploits of the Raghu dynasty, important for mythic background to and retelling of elements of the Hindu epic, the Rāmāyaṇa. Written by two or three different scribal hands, one possibly a child's.

Notes:

• Title from colophon (f. 12v).
• Written in 6-10 lines per leaf.
• 20 leaves foliated 1-9, 2-12, upper left verso.
• Colophon: iti raghuvaṃśe mahākāvye tṛtīyaḥ sargaḥ // 3 // (f. 12v).
• Dated śaka 1691 (1769) (f. 9v).
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant characters and phrases highlighted in red.
• Watermarks of a coat of arms.

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 1969 (UP 2703).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2703.

OCLC:

974036377