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Title

Daśakumāracarita
दशकुमारचरित

Authors

• Daṇḍin, active 7th century

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1508
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9967842843503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/930273971
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6784284

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is a Sanskrit poetic work used for contemplation and the practice of recitation. Text follows the exploits of ten princes in their worldly pursuits for love, sex, wealth, and power within the courtly system of 7th-century India.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 102 leaves foliated 11-112, 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; vertical margins marked with single black line.
   

Extent

1 item (102 leaves) : 12 x 26 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: ity ācāryyaśrīdaṃḍinaḥ kṛtau daśakumāracarite mahākāvye 'ṣṭama ullāsaḥ // (f. 112r).

Subjects topical

• Courtly love--Poetry
• Royal houses--India
• Erotic literature, Indic
• Love poetry, Indic

Genres

• Poems
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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