Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1547: Raghuvaṃśa.
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Title from colophon (f. 84r).
Written in 8 lines per leaf.
There is a watermark of a partial coat of arms (f. 63).
27 leaves foliated 53-63, 69-84, 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 1547
9967168923503681
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/921937421
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6716892
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 contains the last seven chapters of the work after the defeat of the demon Rāvaṇa; addresses the installation of Rāma as king of Ayodhya, the trial of Sītā, here subsequent banishment, and ends with a genealogy of kings. Manuscript is incomplete; one folio (f. 63) was added and is in a second scribal hand.
In Sanskrit
Raghuvaṃśa.
रघुवंश
Kālidāsa
Colophon: iti śrīraghuvaṃśe mahākāvye kālidāsakṛtau eko naviṃśaḥ sargaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 84r).
paper
1 item (27 leaves) : 11 x 27 cm
Hindu mythology
Rāma (Hindu deity)
Poems
Watermarks
Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
Manuscripts--India--18th century
Manuscripts--India--19th century