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Title

Subhāṣitasuradruma.
सुभाषितसुरद्रुम

Authors

• Basavaraja, King of Keladi, approximately 1684-approximately 1745

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1526
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9967164213503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/921892572
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6716421

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Poetic and mythological sayings and maxims compiled as a repository of ethical and political guidance and instructions for making good decisions through poetry and Hindu mythology. Manuscript is comprised of the second and largest of four sections (skandha) that make up this work. There is a table of contents at the beginning of the manuscript (f. i-iv).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 220r).
   
• Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 224 leaves foliated [i-iv], 1-220, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1742 (1820) (f. 220r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   

Extent

1 item (224 leaves) : 13 x 31 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti subhāṣitasuradrume dvitIyaskaṃdhasamāptaḥ // (f. 220r).

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology
• Maxims, Sanskrit

Genres

• Tables of contents
• Poems
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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