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Title

Kuvalayānanda
कुवलयानन्द

Authors

• Appayya Dīkṣita

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1473
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9964157823503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/910919165
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6415782

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript used for study and consultation and is a treatise, manual or textbook designed for students learning the various components as well as appreciation of the aesthetics or ornamentation (alaṃkāra) of Sanskrit poetry. Contains a commentary by Vaidyanātha called the Alaṃkāracandrikā running parallel, above and below the root text.

Notes

• Title from end title page (f. 62v); title of commentary Alaṃkāracandrikā from incipit (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 12-19 lines per leaf.
   
• 62 leaves foliated 1-62, middle right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line; decorative border on final title page (f. 62v).
   

Extent

1 item (62 leaves) : 11 x 31 cm

Support

Paper

Subjects topical

• Poetics
• Sanskrit language--Versification
• Sanskrit language--Rhetoric

Genres

• Treatises
• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Commentaries
• Drawings (visual works)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 62v — Border decoration, f. 62v