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

Title

Authors

• Mallinātha

Other related names

• Bālambhaṭa, Babar, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9975393623503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/974036103

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript used for contemplation and study and is part of a commentary on Bhāravi's poem Kirātārjunīya, a development and reinterpretation of a Hindu mythic story from the Mahābhārata about an encounter between the god Śiva and the epic hero Arjuna in which Śiva appears as a wild mountain man (Kirāta). Manuscript contains commentary on the eleventh chapter (sarga) up to verse 60, taken from the larger work of eighteen chapters.

Notes

• Title from abbreviations in margins.
   
• Written in 7-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 18 leaves foliated 4-21, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1787 (1730) (f. 18r).
   
• Scribe is Babar Bālambhaṭa. The first name Babar is supplied based on a related manuscript, Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2699.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant characters and phrases highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   

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Support

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology--Early works to 1800
• Siva (Hindu deity)--Early works to 1800
• Arjuna (Hindu mythology)--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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