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

Title

Authors

• Śrīharṣa, active 12th century

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9967552273503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/927114548
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6755227

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Language

Summary

Manuscript is the fifth section (sarga) of this Hindu epic love story about Nala, king of the Niṣadas, and his wife Damayantī, how they came to be married and their subsequent exploits. Manuscript is incomplete, containing only verses 1-95. There is an unidentified commentary (ṭīkā) running parallel, above and below the root text.

Notes

• Title from title abbreviations in margins; title of commentary Naiṣadhacaritaṭīkā from title abbreviations in margins.
   
• Written in 10-14 lines per leaf.
   
• 15 leaves foliated 1-15, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with quadruple black line.
   

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Support

Subjects topical

• Damayantī (Hindu mythology)
• Nala (Hindu mythology)
• Hindu mythology
• Marriage--Religious aspects--Hinduism

Genres

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

Licenses

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