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Title

Kirātārjunīya
किरातार्जुनीय

Authors

• Bhāravi

Other related names

• Beḍekara Govindabhaṭṭa, scribe

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1540
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9964461173503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/913796650
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6446117

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Bharavi's development and reinterpretation of a Hindu mythic story from the Mahābhārata about an encounter between the god Śiva and the epic hero Arjuna in which Śiva appears as a wild mountain man (Kirāta). Manuscript is incomplete missing the first three and ninth of eighteen chapters (sargas).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 82r).
   
• Written in 6-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 76 leaves foliated 12-44, 40-82, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1677 (1755) (f. 82r).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; some vertical margins marked with double red line. Manuscript was written by two different scribes.
   
• Second scribe is Beḍekara Govindabhaṭṭa (f. 40r-82r; name on f. 82r).
   

Extent

1 item (76 leaves) : 11 x 22 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīkirātārjunIye mahākāvye lakṣṃyaṃ ke bhāravikṛtau dhanaṃ jayasya astra lābho nāmāṣṭādaśaḥ sargaḥ // śrīgajānanārpaṇam astu // (f. 82r).

Subjects topical

• Siva (Hindu deity)--Early works to 1800
• Arjuna (Hindu mythology)--Early works to 1800
• Hindu mythology--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

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