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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9945208013503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/424630291
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4520801

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Summary

Supplementary text to the well-known Bhagavadgītā, expanding on the rich philosophical and cosmological discourse between the legendary prince Arjuna and the legendary king Kṛṣṇa, understood as an avatāra of the deity Viṣṇu. Presented as a conversation between Arjuna and Kṛṣṇa.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 19r).
   
• Double daṇḍas in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow or written over. Orange powder rubbed in over colophons, introductions of speakers, and numbers. A few marginal corrections. Illustration of Gaṇeśa and his rat under a canopy flanked by attendants in red ink (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Krishna (Hindu deity)
• Arjuna (Hindu mythology)
• Hindu cosmology
• Epic literature, Sanskrit
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Genres

• Epics
• Poems
• Dialogues
• Drawings (visual works)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2231: Uttaragītā are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

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• Text

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