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

Title

Authors

• Śrīharṣa, active 12th century

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9967560153503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/927117276
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6756015

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is the first section and 30 verses of the second 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.

Notes

• Title from title abbreviations in margins throughout.
   
• Written in 7-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 24 leaves foliated 1-24, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins including commentary notes; vertical margins marked with double red line near end of manuscript. Floral pattern drawn on front cover (f. 1r).
   

Extent

Support

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Poems
• Drawings (visual works)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1558: Naiṣadha. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

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• Text

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  URL

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Floral decoration, f. 1r