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Title

Śiśupālavadha
शिशुपालवध

Authors

• Māgha

Other related names

• Kāśīnātha Devadhara (Son of Rāmabhaṭṭa Devadhara), scribe

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1515
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9964482813503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/913835406
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6448281

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript of text titled Death of Śiśupāla, used for recitation, contemplation, and study; draws from epic mythology, especially the Mahābhārata, about King Śiśupāla who opposes the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa. In response, Kṛṣṇa cuts off his head with his discus (cakra).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 105).
   
• Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 100 leaves foliated 6-105, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1825 (1768) (f. 105r).
   
• Scribe is Kāśīnātha Devadhara, son of Rāmabhaṭṭa Devadhara (f. 105r).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   

Extent

1 item (100 leaves) : 12 x 25 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīśiśupālavadhe mahākāvye māghakṛtau śryaṃ ke viṃśatimaḥ sargaḥ // 20 // (f. 105r).

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Govinda Bhasma in Kāśī (Vārāṇasī) in the year saṃvat 1846 (1789) (f. 105r); owner notes written in a second scribal hand.
   

Subjects topical

• Death--Poetry--Early works to 1800
• Krishna (Hindu deity)--Early works to 1800
• Hindu mythology--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

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