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

Title

Authors

• Kālidāsa

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9964459453503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/913794809
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6445945

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript used for recitation or contemplation and is the twelfth section (sarga) of nineteen. Draws heavily from Hindu mythology and pantheons as well as assumes some knowledge of the storyline of the Rāmāyaṇa, its main characters, and gives a genealogical account of Rāma's dynastic background and lineage. Work is full of rich, poetic imagery of flora and fauna and references to courtly life and Hindu dharma and focuses, in particular, on the death of the demon Rāvaṇa.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 13v).
   
• Written in 6-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 13 leaves foliated 1-13, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology
• Rāvaṇa (Hindu mythology)
• Rāma (Hindu deity)
• Dharma

Genres

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

Licenses

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