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Title

Authors

• Mallinātha

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9967557323503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/927115608
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6755732

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Language

Summary

Manuscript used for contemplation and study and is part of a commentary on Bhāravi's poem Kirātārjunīya, a development and reinterpretation of a Hindu mythic story from the Mahābhārata about an encounter between the god Śiva and the epic hero Arjuna in which Śiva appears as a wild mountain man (Kirāta). Manuscript contains parts of the second and fourth sections (sarga) of the larger commentary of eighteen. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 50r).
   
• Written in 12-15 lines per leaf.
   
• 29 leaves foliated 12-20, 31-50, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   

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Subjects topical

• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Arjuna (Hindu mythology)
• Hindu mythology

Genres

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

Licenses

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