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Title

Rāmacaritamānasa
रामचरितमानस

Authors

• Tulasīdāsa, 1532-1623

Other related names

• De, Jānak, scribe

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2615
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9974015703503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/971022792
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7401570

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Awadhi

Summary

Tulasīdāsa's retelling of the epic Rāmāyaṇa in Awadhi (a language related to Hindi). Contains only four of the seven kāṇḍs (books) of this work, lacking the Ayodha, Kiśkindhā, and Laṅkā kāṇḍs.

Notes

• Title from colophon (Part 4, f. 42r).
   
• Scribe is Jānak De at the Hari temple on the banks of the Ganges River.
   
• Written in 11-13 lines per leaf.
   
• 182 leaves foliated 1-93, 1-29, 1-18, 1-42, middle left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1881-1882 (1824-1825) (Part 3, f. 18r and Part 4, f. 42r).
   
• Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant phrases and verse divisions in red throughout.
   

Extent

1 item (182 leaves) : 16 x 33 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīrāmacaritamānase sakalakalikalukhavidhaṃ sane aviralibhaktisapādinīnāma saptamopāna // śrī uttarakāṃḍa saṃpūrṇaṃ samāptaṃ idaṃ pustakaṃ likhataṃ harimaṃdire gaṃgātaṭe śrījānake de se saṃvat 1881 māsasavana (Part 4, f. 42r).

Subjects topical

• Rāma (Hindu deity)
• Hindu mythology
• Devotional literature, Hindi

Genres

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

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