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

Title

Authors

• Śrīharṣa, active 12th century

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9964155633503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/910915687
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6415563

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Language

Summary

Manuscript is employed for recitation and consultation and is the fourteenth chapter of the well known Hindu epic love story, as retold by Śrīharśa, about Nala, king of the Niṣadas, and his wife Damayantī.

Notes

• Title from marginal abbreviations.
   
• Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
   
• 9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some verse dividers in red; vertical margins marked with double red line; some folios covered with yellow turmeric powder to protect the manuscript from insects.
   

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Support

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology
• Nala (Hindu mythology)
• Damayantī (Hindu mythology)
• Marriage--Religious aspects--Hinduism

Genres

• Poems
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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