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

Title

Authors

• Bilhaṇa, active 11th century
• Gaṇapati

Other related names

• Cauramahākavi, attributed name

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9967552983503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/927114735
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6755298

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript used for recitation or contemplation and is comprised of the full 50 verses of a love poem wherein a woman longs for her lost lover and the goddess Dūrgā, with a commentary by Gaṇapati.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 10v); title of commentary Ślokapañcāsīkāṭīkā from commentary colophon (f. 11r).
   
• Written in 10-14 lines per leaf.
   
• 11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Durgā (Hindu deity)
• Hindu mythology
• Eroticism in literature
• Erotic literature, Indic

Genres

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

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