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Title

Raghuvaṃśa
रघुवंश

Authors

• Kālidāsa

Other related names

• Śevalāla Brāhmaṇa, scribe
• Sītārāma, former owner

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 503
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959581123503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/845391445
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5958112

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript used for recitation or contemplation and comprises the second half of Kālidāsa's poem, from the ninth chapter (sarga), verse eight, until the end of the work at chapter 19. Draws heavily from Hindu mythology and pantheons as well as assumes some knowledge of the storyline of the Rāmāyaṇa and its main characters and gives a genealogical account of Rāma's dynastic background and lineage. Work is full of rich, poetic imagery of flora and fauna and references to courtly life and Hindu dharma. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 123v).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 63 leaves foliated 52-65, 72-119, 123, lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1837 śaka 1702 (1780) (f. 123r).
   
• Scribe is Śevalāla Brāhmaṇa (f. 123r; "va" is supplied and the paper torn); the scribe lived in Varāṇasī (f. 123r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   

Extent

1 item (63 leaves) : 11 x 24 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīraghuvaṃśemahākāvye śrīkālidāsakṛtau strIrājyā 'bhiṣikonāmaikonaviṃśatitamaḥ sargāḥ // 18 // saṃvat 1837 śaka 1702 kāśyāṃ madhye idaṃ pustakaṃ likhitaṃ śe[va]lālabrāhmaṇena kārtike māse kṛṣṇe pakṣe varakacaturddaśyāṃ guruvāsarānvitāyāṃ idaṃ pustakaṃ samāptaṃ (f. 123r).

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Sītārāma (f. 126).
   

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology
• Rāma (Hindu deity)
• Dharma
• Hunting--Poetry

Genres

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

Licenses

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