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

Title

Authors

• Māgha

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9967590393503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/927415483
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6759039

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript contains a version of the ancient Hindu legend wherein a demon is born into the world as a king named Śiśupāla who wants to deny Kṛṣṇa participation in a royal sacrifice. He challenges Kṛṣna to a fight, whereupon he is slain; manuscript also contains an unidentified commentary running parallel above and below the root text.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 10r).
   
• Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   
• Watermarks of a fleur-de-lis and part of a name.
   

Extent

Support

Subjects topical

• Krishna (Hindu deity)
• Sacrifice--Hinduism
• Hindu mythology

Genres

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

Licenses

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