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

Title

Authors

• Kālidāsa

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959622413503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/847747243
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5962241

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript used for recitation and contemplation and tells the story of a mischievous spirit (yakṣa) who has been banished from his service to the Hindu god of wealth Kubera. The spirit asks a cloud to send a message to his wife who remained in Kubera's realm, hence the title of the work, Cloud messenger (Meghadūta). Manuscript lacks an ending.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 15 leaves foliated 1-15, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins, many in a different hand; verse numbers highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   

Extent

Support

Subjects topical

• Folklore--India
• Spirits
• Yakṣas (Hindu deities)
• Kubera (Hindu deity)
• Hindu mythology
• Clouds--Poetry

Genres

• Poems
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--17th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--17th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

Licenses

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