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

Title

Authors

• Bilhaṇa, active 11th century

Other related names

• Vināyaka Āḍiśekara (Son of Bālakṛṣṇabhaṭṭa), scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959689853503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/851090030
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5968985

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript used for recitation or contemplation and is comprised of the full 50 verses of the love poem, loosely translated by B.S. Miller as Phantasies of a love thief, wherein a woman longs for her lost lover and the goddess Dūrgā.

Notes

• Scribe is Vināyaka Āḍiśekara son of Bālakṛṣṇabhaṭṭa (f. 2v).
   
• Title from colophon (f. 2v).
   
• Written in 9-22 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated [1-2], lower left verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1860 (1803) (f. 2v); date is abbreviated as "saḥ" but should read saṃvat given that a śaka date of 1938 A.D. would post-date its inclusion in the Penn collection.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Erotic literature, Indic
• Durgā (Hindu deity)
• Love poetry, Indic
• Hindu mythology

Genres

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

Licenses

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