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Title

Authors

• Kālidāsa

Other related names

• Viṣṇubhaṭṭa Sahasrabudhya, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9967168893503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/921937013
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6716889

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is employed for contemplation and study and is a poetic work that deals with the exploits of the Raghu dynasty, important as a mythic background to and retelling of elements of the Hindu epic, the Rāmāyaṇa.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 11r).
   
• Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 11 leaves foliated [1-11], upper left and lower right verso; the edges of the manuscript have been cut and many partial numbers appear.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, numbers, or phrases highlighted in red.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Viṣṇubhaṭṭa Sahasrabudhya (f. 11r).
   

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology
• Rāma (Hindu deity)

Genres

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

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