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Title

Authors

• Kālidāsa

Other related names

• Lakṣmīkānta Bhaṭa, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9964457383503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/913786632
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6445738

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is the first and most of the second part of Kālidāsa's poem about the birth of the Hindu deity Skanda, also known as Kārttikeya; the first part deals with the birth and life of the mother of Skanda, the Hindu goddess Umā, also known as Pārvatī.

Notes

• Title from internal colophon (f. 6r).
   
• Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 13 leaves foliated 1-13, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Internal colophon: iti śrīkumārasaṃbhave mahākāvye kālidāsakṛtāv umotpattirnāmaprathamaḥ sargaḥ // 1 // (f. 6r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   
• Scribe is Lakṣmīkānta Bhaṭa (f. 13v).
   

Extent

Support

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology
• Parvati (Hindu deity)
• Kārttikeya (Hindu deity)

Genres

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

Licenses

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