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

Title

Authors

• Kālidāsa

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9975393863503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/974036761
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7539386

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is employed for contemplation and study and is the tenth section 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 text (f. 9v).
   
• Written in 6-8 lines per leaf.
   
• 8 leaves foliated 1-2, 4-9, upper left verso.
   
• Watermarks of a coat of arms.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant phrases and numbers highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   

Extent

Support

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology
• Rāma (Hindu deity)

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2706: Raghuvaṃśa. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

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• Text

  Metadata is ©2017 University of Pennsylvania Books & Manuscripts and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

  URL

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated border, f. 1r