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Title

Kāthakalpalatākaviśikṣāvṛtti
काव्यकल्पलताकविशिक्षावृत्ति

Authors

• Amaracandrasūri, active 13th century

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2637
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9974218593503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/971616352

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript used for consultation and study and is a treatise on Sanskrit poetry, poetics (alaṃkāraśāstra), and rhetoric in the form of a commentary on the Kavyakalpalatā by the same author.

Notes

• Title from internal colophon (f. 126v); alternate title Kāvyakalpalatākaviṣikṣāvṛtti supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 10 lines per leaf.
   
• 127 leaves foliated 1-127, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with quadruple black line.
   
• There is a square- or cross-shaped space in the middle of each folio, devoid of text, but in the center of each folio is a small hole, a reference to a style of binding used with palm leaf manuscripts. Some of the spaces have small drawings of a flower or circle in them.
   

Extent

1 item (127 leaves) : 9 x 22 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrījinadannasuriśiṣyamahākaviśrī amaracaṃdraviracitāyāṃ kāthakalpalatākaviśikṣāvṛttau arṣasidvipratāne [???]samasyāstabakaḥ saptamaḥ // (f. 126v).

Subjects topical

• Sanskrit language--Rhetoric
• Hindu poetry
• Poetics

Genres

• Treatises
• Drawings (visual works)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 80v-81r — Table, f. 81r
• fol. 81v-82r — Table, f. 81v