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Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1529 Raghuvaṃśa. / रघुवंश

Title

Raghuvaṃśa.
रघुवंश

Authors

Kālidāsa

Other related names

Nārāyaṇa Bacaṃbhaṭṭa (Son of Kṛṣṇahastākṣara Bacaṃbhaṭṭa), scribe

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1529
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

bibid: 9967164303503681
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/921893051
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6716430

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

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.

Notes

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.

Extent

1 item (8 leaves) : 11 x 23 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīraghuvaṃśe mahākāvye paṃcamaḥ sargaḥ // (f. 8r).

Subjects topical

Hindu mythology
Rāma (Hindu deity)
Kubera (Hindu deity)

Genres

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

Licenses

Text

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URL

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Text

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URL

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