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

Title

Authors

• Śrīharṣa, active 12th century

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9967556703503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/927115322
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6755670

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Language

Summary

Manuscript is part (up to verse 33) of the thirteenth section (sarga) of this Hindu epic love story about Nala, king of the Niṣadas, and his wife Damayantī, how they came to be married and their subsequent exploits. An unidentified commentary runs parallel above and below the root text

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger; title of commentary Naiṣadhṭīkā from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 9-14 lines per leaf.
   
• 19 leaves foliated 1-19, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   
• Watermarks of multiple coats of arms, Britannia and others, a personal name or name of a company, and the date 1874.
   
• Dated after 1874, based on a watermark.
   

Extent

Support

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology
• Nala (Hindu mythology)
• Damayantī (Hindu mythology)
• Marriage--Religious aspects--Hinduism

Genres

• Poems
• Commentaries
• Watermarks
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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