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

Title

Authors

• Kālidāsa

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9975393763503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/974036377

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is employed for contemplation and study and is the third and fourth 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. Written by two or three different scribal hands, one possibly a child's.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 12v).
   
• Written in 6-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 20 leaves foliated 1-9, 2-12, upper left verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1691 (1769) (f. 9v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant characters and phrases highlighted in red.
   
• Watermarks of a coat of arms.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology--Early works to 1800
• Rāma (Hindu deity)--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

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