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Title

Sundarakāṇḍa
सुन्दरकाण्ड

Authors

• Vālmīki

Other related names

• Bhādrapanta, scribe

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 350
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9954028003503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/770326113
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5402800

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Fifth book of the epic poem the Rāmāyaṇa; deals with the exploits of the Hindu monkey lord Hanuman who travels to the island of Laṅkā and encounters the demon lord Rāvaṇa the text also deals with the conversations between Rāvaṇa and Sītā, who has been captured and imprisoned by the demon lord.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 12-13 lines per leaf.
   
• 90 leaves foliated 1-37, 37-89, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1900 śake 1765 āṣāḍhaśukla 4 śanau (Saturday, July 1, 1843) (f. 89v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   
• Notes on paper and bindings or wrappings.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   
• Scribe is Bhādrapanta of Kāśī (Vārāṇasī), son of Rathapanta of Kūrmācala (f. 89v).
   

Extent

1 item (90 leaves) : 17 x 36 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: svasti śrīkūrmāṃcalavāsimato rathapaṃtatasyātmajakāśīvātībhādrapaṃtetapustakavālmīkiya rāmāyaṇasaṃdarakāṃḍaśodhi[?]syasti śrīsaṃvat 1900 śake 1765 āṣāḍhaśukra 4 śanau gājipure prathamaprahare samāptaṃ kṛtaṃ // (f. 89v).

Subjects topical

• Epic literature, Sanskrit
• Hanumān (Hindu deity)
• Rāvaṇa (Hindu mythology)
• Sītā (Hindu deity)
• Rāma (Hindu deity)

Genres

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

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