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

Title

Authors

• Māgha

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9975394163503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/974037437

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript of a section of the poem titled Death of Śiśupāla, used for recitation, contemplation, and study; draws from epic mythology about king Śiśupāla who opposes the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa who cuts off his head with his discus (cakra). Manuscript is of the second of 23 books.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 11r).
   
• Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant phrases, verse divisions and numbers highlighted in red throughout; some vertical margins marked with double red line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology
• Death--Poetry

Genres

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

Licenses

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