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Title

Authors

• Mallinātha

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9967560223503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/927117569
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6756022

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Language

Summary

Commentary on Kālidāsa's Meghadūta or the Cloud messenger, referred to in the manuscript as Meghasaṃdeśa (f. 20v) and referring to a message sent between deities, especially Kubera, via a cloud.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 20v).
   
• Written in 16-22 lines per leaf.
   
• 20 leaves foliated 1-20, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   
• Watermarks of a coat of arms incorporating a fleur-de-lis.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Kubera (Hindu deity)
• Hindu gods
• Hindu mythology
• Hindu poetry

Genres

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

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