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Title

Rāmagītā
रामगीता

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2207
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957283713503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/791456240
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5728371

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

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 over that of action (karma). Presented within a discussion between the Hindu deity Śiva and Pārvatī.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Rāmagītāstotra from colophon (f. 27r).
   
• Written in 5 lines per leaf.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line. Decorative second page design, which likely served as the original cover; outer cover (f. 1r), one folio (f. 9), and part of colophon (f. 27r) written in second hand; outer cover and one folio (f. 9) on different paper.
   
• Small booklet bound on top edge, likely glued.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

1 item (28 leaves) : 7 x 10 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrībrahmāṃḍapurāṇe uttarakāṇḍe śrīmadadhyātmarāmāyaṇe / umāmaheśvarasaṃvāde uttarakāṃḍe śrīrāmagītāstotra saṃpūrṇaṃ // paṃcamādhyāyaḥ // cha // cha // (f. 26v-27r).

Subjects topical

• Rāma (Hindu deity)
• Lakṣmaṇa (Hindu deity)
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Karma
• Hindu mythology
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Genres

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

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated border, f. 1r
• fol. 2r — Ink drawing, f. 2r