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Title

Raghuvaṃśa
रघुवंश

Authors

• Kālidāsa

Other related names

• Miśra Cintāmaṇi, former owner
• Ṭhākur Data I, scribe

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 537
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959891093503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/854877973
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5989109

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript used for recitation or contemplation and is comprised of the complete set of 19 chapters (sargas) of the work. Draws heavily from Hindu mythology and pantheons and assumes some knowledge of the storyline of the Rāmāyaṇa and its main characters and gives a genealogical account of Rāma's dynastic background and lineage. Work is full of rich, poetic imagery of flora and fauna and references to courtly life and Hindu dharma.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 90v).
   
• Written in 8-13 lines per leaf.
   
• 90 leaves foliated 1-90, 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; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   
• Scribe is Ṭhākur Data I (f. 90v).
   

Extent

1 item (90 leaves) : 11 x 23 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīraghuvaṃśe mahākāvye kaviśrīkālidāsakṛtau agnivarṇavarṇano nāmaikonaviṃśatiḥ sargaḥ // 19 // turagayugavasūrvyāmabdake 'smiṃ stapas ye śivatithiyutabhāsvadvāsare kṛṣṇapakṣe dvijavaravarabuddher miśraciṃtāmaṇeś ca vyabhilikhitam asau śiṣyeṇa ṭhākurdatena 1 samāpto 'yaṃ grathaḥ // (f. 90v).

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Miśra Cintāmaṇi (f. 90v).
   

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology
• Rāma (Hindu deity)
• Dharma

Genres

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

Licenses

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