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

Title

Authors

• Kālidāsa

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9975498853503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/974372740

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is employed for contemplation and study and is the end of the second and beginning of the third section (through verse 72) 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 internal colophon (f. 28v).
   
• Written in 6-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 10 leaves foliated 28-37, upper left verso.
   
• Internal colophon: iti śrīraghuvaṃśe mahākāvye kaviśrīkālidāsakṛtau naṃdī / nīvarapradāno nāmīdvatīyaḥ sargaḥ // 2 // (f. 28v).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant characters, phrases, and numbers highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   

Extent

Support

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

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