Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Vallabhadeva, active 10th century

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9964457713503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/913787029
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6445771

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is a commentary on the eighth part (sarga) of Kālidāsa's poem about the birth of the Hindu deity Skanda (Kārttikeya). Originally part of a larger work.

Notes

• Title from internal colophon (f. 6r).
   
• Written in 13 lines per leaf.
   
• 13 leaves foliated 1-13, upper left verso, and foliated 168-180, lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line; written in a script usually seen in Jain works.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1668 (1611) (f. 13v).
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology--Early works to 1800
• Kārttikeya (Hindu deity)--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Commentaries
• Poems
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--17th century
• Manuscripts--India--17th century

Licenses

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