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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9954196763503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/774532355

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Summary

4 verses (śloka) purporting to be the essence of the Mahābārata; proclaims the importance of practicing dharma over lust, greed, etc.

Notes

• Title from incipit (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 1 leaf foliated 1, 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; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   
• Two fragments of a book cover with colored marbling and inset artificial flowers used as covers for the manuscript.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Dharma
• Hindu mythology

Genres

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

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