Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1529: Raghuvaṃśa. University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1529: Raghuvaṃśa. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Title from colophon (f. 8r). Scribe is Nārāyaṇa Bacaṃbhaṭṭa, son of Kṛṣṇahastākṣara Bacaṃbhaṭṭa (f. 8r). Written in 8-9 lines per leaf. 8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso. Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1529 9967164303503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/921893051 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6716430 Manuscript is employed for contemplation and study and is a poetic work that deals with the exploits of the Raghu dynasty, important as a mythic background to and retelling of elements of the Hindu epic, the Rāmāyaṇa. This section of the text deals with an episode of king Raghu, as sage, and the god Kubera. In Sanskrit Raghuvaṃśa. रघुवंश Kālidāsa scribe Nārāyaṇa Bacaṃbhaṭṭa (Son of Kṛṣṇahastākṣara Bacaṃbhaṭṭa) Colophon: iti śrīraghuvaṃśe mahākāvye paṃcamaḥ sargaḥ // (f. 8r).

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 1 item (8 leaves) : 11 x 23 cm Hindu mythology Rāma (Hindu deity) Kubera (Hindu deity) Poems Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century Manuscripts--India--18th century Manuscripts--India--19th century