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Title

Raghuvaṃśa
रघुवंश

Authors

• Kālidāsa

Other related names

• Raghunātha Kāgalakara, former owner

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1535
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9967164353503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/921893599
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6716435

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is employed for contemplation and study and is a poetic work that deals with the exploits of the Raghu dynasty, important as a mythic background to and retelling of elements of the Hindu epic, the Rāmāyaṇa. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 132r).
   
• Written in 11-15 lines per leaf.
   
• 93 leaves foliated 12-20, 31-36, 45-61, 72-132, 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 much of the manuscript; a few margins are marked with a single black vertical line; there are perhaps two or more scribal hands involved with the creation of this manuscript..
   

Extent

1 item (93 leaves) : 2 x 18 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīraghuvaṃśe mahākāvye kavi śrīkālidāsakṛtau āgnivarṇasaṃbhogavarṇanaṃ nāma eko 'naviṃśaḥ sargaḥ samāptaḥ 16 śubhaṃbhavatu (f. 132r).

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Raghunātha Kāgalakara (f. 132v).
   

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology
• Rāma (Hindu deity)

Genres

• Poems
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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