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Title

Other related names

• Mahīdhara, commentator for written text

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957236033503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/790400608
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5723603

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Summary

Text from the last section (uttarakāṇḍa) of the Adhyātmarāmāyaṇa, chapter five, a conversation between Rāma and his brother Lakṣmaṇa where Rāma propounds the merits of knowledge of the Self (ātman) over that of action (karma); contains a Sanskrit commentary (ṭīkā) and gloss by Mahīdhara, running in succession after each verse of the main Sanskrit text.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 16v); commentary title Rāmagītā ṭīkā from colophon (f. 16v); title Rāmagītāvivṛti, referring to gloss by Mahīdhara, supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 10 lines per leaf.
   
• 16 leaves foliated 1-16, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1694 (1772) (f. 16v).
   
• 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 red line.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Rāma (Hindu deity)
• Lakṣmaṇa (Hindu deity)
• Karma
• Hindu mythology
• Ātman

Genres

• Commentaries
• Dialogues
• Glossaries
• Poems
• Prayers
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

Licenses

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