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Title

Daśakumāracarita
दशकुमारचरित

Authors

• Daṇḍin, active 7th century

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 527
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959689803503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/851090997
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5968980

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript of the Adventures of the ten princes (Daśakumāracarita), a Sanskrit poetic work used for contemplation and the practice of recitation. Text follows the exploits of ten princes in their worldly pursuits for love, sex, wealth, and power within the courtly system of 7th-century India. Manuscript is missing the beginning and ending of the poem.

Notes

• Title from marginal note in second scribal hand (f. 10r).
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 50 leaves foliated 10-59, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with quadruple black line.
   

Extent

1 item (50 leaves) : 10 x 27 cm

Support

Paper

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology
• Royal houses--India
• Erotic literature, Indic
• Love poetry, Indic

Genres

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

Licenses

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