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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944942383503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/341491025
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4494238

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Summary

Story about an elephant who gets caught by a crocodile and is liberated by the Hindu deity Viṣṇu; attributed to the Śāntiparvan of the Mahābhārata, but is not part of the critical edition.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r); title also written in Telugu script on final title page (f. 29v); alternate title Gajendramokṣaṇastava from colophon (f. 29r).
   
• 30 leaves foliated 1-30, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• Invocation, title, colophon, introduction of speakers and double daṇḍas written in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow. Orange powder rubbed in over numbers.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Epic literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu stories

Genres

• Animal stories
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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