Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1529: Raghuvaṃśa.
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Title from colophon (f. 8r).
Scribe is Nārāyaṇa Bacaṃbhaṭṭa, son of Kṛṣṇahastākṣara Bacaṃbhaṭṭa (f. 8r).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
8 leaves foliated 1-8, 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.
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Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1529
9967164303503681
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/921893051
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6716430
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. This section of the text deals with an episode of king Raghu, as sage, and the god Kubera.
In Sanskrit
Raghuvaṃśa.
रघुवंश
Kālidāsa
scribe
Nārāyaṇa Bacaṃbhaṭṭa (Son of Kṛṣṇahastākṣara Bacaṃbhaṭṭa)
Colophon: iti śrīraghuvaṃśe mahākāvye paṃcamaḥ sargaḥ // (f. 8r).
paper
1 item (8 leaves) : 11 x 23 cm
Hindu mythology
Rāma (Hindu deity)
Kubera (Hindu deity)
Poems
Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
Manuscripts--India--18th century
Manuscripts--India--19th century