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Title

Bhojacarita
भोजचरित

Call number

Ms. Indic 31
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9976895203503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/988032403

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Braj and Sanskrit

Summary

Hagiography of the Malwa king Bhoja in which he is turned into a parrot and restored by a Kashmiri ascetic. Numerous illustrations including Hindu court life, battles, erotic love, the paṇḍita Magha, and animals.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 86v).
   
• Written in 12 lines per leaf.
   
• 132 leaves foliated 1-25, 30-45, 47-52, 54-59, 61-91, [i-xxxxviii], lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1895 (1838) (f. 86v).
   
• 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 red line; paintings surrounded by red border line.
   
• Codex with cloth cover.
   

Extent

1 item (132 leaves) : 15 x 24 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrībhojacaritaḥ panarāmīvidyā saṃpūrṇāṃ // (f. 86v).

Provenance

• Gift of an unknown donor to Penn Libraries, November 1980 (inserted notes).
   

Subjects topical

• Kings and rulers--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Asceticism--Hinduism

Genres

• Hagiographies (works)
• Poems
• Paintings (visual works)
• Manuscripts, Braj--19th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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