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Title

Kādambarīsāra
कादम्बरीसार

Authors

• Abhinanda, active 9th century

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 500
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959555763503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/844241299
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5955576

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript used for private recitation and study and is a shortened retelling of Bāṇabhaṭṭa's work the Kādambarī, which is a romance novel dealing with court life and the complexities of the Hindu caste system.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 51v).
   
• Written in 6-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 51 leaves foliated 1-51, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1800 (1743) (f. 51); date written in a second scribal hand and is probably later than the text itself.
   
• 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 double black line.
   

Extent

1 item (51 leaves) : 11 x 24 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrībhaṭṭajayaṃta // sūnor abhinaṃdasya kṛtau kādambarīsāre aṣṭāmassargāḥ // 100 // rāma // śubham astu // saṃvat 1800 māse āśvine śukle pakṣe dvitīyāyāṃ tithau budhavāsare samāptākathā (f. 51).

Subjects topical

• Caste--India
• Courtly love in literature
• Romance literature--India

Genres

• Romances (document genre)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

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