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

Title

Authors

• Kālidāsa

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9976172743503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/976178001

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is employed for contemplation and study and is 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 title abbreviations in margins.
   
• Written in 6-7 lines per leaf.
   
• 12 leaves foliated 1-12, upper left verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant characters, phrases, and numbers highlighted in red.
   

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

Licenses

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