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Title

Kumārasambhava
कुमारसम्भव

Authors

• Kālidāsa
• Mallinātha

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1573
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9967566353503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/927151209
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6756635

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is part of Kālidāsa's well known poem, from the middle of the third chapter to the end of the seventh chapter, about the birth of the Hindu deity Skanda-Kārttikeya, dealing with the mythology of the relationship between the deities Pārvatī (Gaurī) and Śiva, their courtship and marriage. A commentary by Mallinātha runs parallel above and below the root text. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 26r); title of commentary Sañjīvanī from commentary colophon (f. 26v).
   
• Written in 9-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 92 leaves foliated 61-126, 1-26, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1856 (1799) (f. 26v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red through the first half of the manuscript.
   

Extent

1 item (92 leaves) : 13 x 28 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīśrīkumārasaṃbhave mahākāvye kaviśrīkālikdāsakṛtau gaurīpariṇayano nāmasaptaḥ sargaḥ 7 (f. 26r).

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology--Early works to 1800
• Kārttikeya (Hindu deity)--Early works to 1800
• Parvati (Hindu deity)--Early works to 1800
• Siva (Hindu deity)--Early works to 1800
• Marriage--Religious aspects--Hinduism--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

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