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

Title

Authors

• Kālidāsa

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9975393603503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/974036068

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is employed for contemplation and study and is several sections of a poetic work that deals with the exploits of the Raghu dynasty, important for mythic background to and retelling of elements of the Hindu epic, the Rāmāyaṇa.

Notes

• Title from abbreviations in margins.
   
• Written in 10-13 lines per leaf.
   
• 27 leaves foliated 25-51, upper left verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant characters and phrases highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double black line on some folios.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology
• Rāma (Hindu deity)

Genres

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

Licenses

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