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Title

Kumārasambhava.
कुमारसम्भव

Authors

• Kālidāsa

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1518
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9964459473503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/913794832
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6445947

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is most 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, and her attempts to win Lord Śiva as her husband. The manuscript ends with chapter (sarga) 17, the killing of the demon (asura) Tāraka. Manuscript is missing the final chapter of the work.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 49r).
   
• Written in 12-14 lines per leaf.
   
• 49 leaves foliated 1-49, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1846 (1789) (f. 49r).
   
• Internal colophon: iti śrīkumārasaṃbhave mahākāvye kālidāsakṛtāu tārakāsuravadho nāmasaptadaśaḥ sargaḥ // 17 // (f. 49r).
   
• Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins, some in a second scribal hand; significant words, phrases, and numbers highlight in red; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   

Extent

1 item (49 leaves) : 10 x 23 cm

Support

Paper

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology--Early works to 1800
• Kārttikeya (Hindu deity)--Early works to 1800
• Parvati (Hindu deity)--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

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