Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Vālmīki

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9954023943503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/770073943
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5402394

Publisher

Language

Summary

First chapter (sarga) of the first book (bālakāṇḍa) of the Rāmāyaṇa, a Hindu epic attributed to the sage Vālmīki; Vālmīki appears in the text in conversation with the mythical sage Nārada who relates the story of King Rāma to him; Vālmīki is moved by the death of a song bird and puts the epic story into śloka verse, as a result.

Notes

• Title from colophon; alternate title Śataślokī rāmāyaṇa from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 6 leaves foliated 1-5 (upper left and lower right verso), 6 (upper left and lower right recto).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Epic literature, Sanskrit
• Nārada (Hindu mythology)

Genres

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

Licenses

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