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Title

Adhyātmarāmāyaṇa kiṣkindhākāṇḍa
अध्यात्मरामायण किष्किन्धाकाण्ड

Other related names

• Raghunātha Jyotis, scribe

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 329
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9954494073503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/780320566
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5449407

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Medieval retelling of the epic story of the Rāmāyaṇa, wherein the hero Rāma is identified with the universal spirit (adhyātma) and is nonviolent; narrative takes the form of a dialogue between the Hindu deities Śiva (as Maheśa) and Pārvatī (as Umā); traditionally ascribed to the legendary author Vyāsa. In the fourth section (kāṇḍa) of the Adhyātmarāmāyaṇa, Rāma forms an alliance with the monkey king Sugrīva; Vālin dies; the monkey general Hanuman comes to prominence. Manuscript is missing beginning of text.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
   
• 46 leaves foliated 1-46, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1775 (1853) (f. 46v).
   
• Scribe is Raghunātha Jyotis (f. 46v) who lived in the village of Bāvadhana, now a district of the city of Pune, Maharashtra; for another manuscript written by the same scribe, see Ms. Coll. 390, Item 321.
   
• Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins;vertical margins marked with double red line.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

1 item (46 leaves) : 11 x 22 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: idaṃ adhyātmarāmāyaṇaṃ targatakiṣkindhākāṇḍasya pustakaṃ ṣatcatvāriṃśatmatrātmakaṃ anaṃtaśiṣyasyātmārāmasya rāmabhaktasya jyotiṣyupanāmnā raghunāthena likhitaṃ tac chake 1775 pauṣkṛṣṇasaptabhyāṃ maṃ desūryodayavelāyāṃsamāptaṃ // rāma // (f. 46v).

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology
• Rāma (Hindu deity)
• Sugrīva (Hindu mythology)
• Hanumān (Hindu deity)
• Siva (Hindu deity)

Genres

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

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