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Title

Prasannarāghava
प्रसन्नराघव

Authors

• Jayadeva, active 13th century

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 514
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959625613503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/847759777
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5962561

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript used for recitation or dramatic performance (a play) which draws on the Hindu mythology of the Rāmāyaṇa and includes a dialogue between the figures Rāma and Sītā who discuss the subtle qualities of a breeze, which serve as natural allegories of the qualities of poetry itself.

Notes

• Title from incipit (f. 109r).
   
• Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 108 leaves foliated 1-28, 30-109, 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 most of the manuscript; vertical margins marked with double red line on some folios.
   

Extent

1 item (108 leaves) : 10 20 cm

Support

Paper

Subjects topical

• Rāma (Hindu deity)
• Sītā (Hindu deity)
• Sanskrit poetry
• Winds--Poetry

Genres

• Poems
• Plays (document genre)
• Dialogues
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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