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Title

Authors

• Rāmavarman

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957461873503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/793108752
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5746187

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Language

Summary

Text from the last section (uttarakāṇḍa) of the Adhyātmarāmāyaṇa, chapter five, a conversation between Rāma and his brother Lakṣmaṇa, in which Rāma propounds the merits of knowledge over that of action (karma). Presented as a dialogue between Śiva and Pārvatī. Commentary (ṭīkā) running above and below the main text by Rāmavarman son of Himantivarman, pupil of Nāgeśa (f. 19r).

Notes

• Title from title page (f. [i] recto); title of commentary Rāmagītāṭīkā from end title page (f. 19v).
   
• Written in 10-14 lines per leaf.
   
• 20 leaves foliated [i], 1-19, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; main text as well as other significant syllables, words, and phrases in commentary 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)
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Karma
• Hindu mythology
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Genres

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

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