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Title

Damayantīkathā
दमयन्तीकथा

Authors

• Trivikramabhaṭṭa, active 10th century

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1504
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9967477773503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/926062444
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6747777

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Poem telling the story of Damayantī, a princess in Hindu mythology who is an archetype of feminine beauty.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 53r).
   
• Written in 17 lines per leaf.
   
• 53 leaves foliated 1-53, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line; there is a central design on each folio involving four characters.
   

Extent

1 item (53 leaves) : 11 x 26 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti trivikramamabhaṭṭaviracitāyāṃ vibudhajanamanohāriṇyāṃ damayaṃtīkathāyāṃ saptama ullvāsaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 53r).

Subjects topical

• Damayantī (Hindu mythology)
• Hindu mythology

Genres

• Poems
• Drawings (visual works)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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