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Title

Authors

• Kālidāsa

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9967168923503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/921937421
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6716892

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. Manuscript contains the last seven chapters of the work after the defeat of the demon Rāvaṇa; addresses the installation of Rāma as king of Ayodhya, the trial of Sītā, here subsequent banishment, and ends with a genealogy of kings. Manuscript is incomplete; one folio (f. 63) was added and is in a second scribal hand.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 84r).
   
• Written in 8 lines per leaf.
   
• There is a watermark of a partial coat of arms (f. 63).
   
• 27 leaves foliated 53-63, 69-84, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology
• Rāma (Hindu deity)

Genres

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

Licenses

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