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

Title

Authors

• Kālidāsa

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9975394053503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/974037356
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7539405

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is employed for contemplation and study and is the seventh 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. Reference is made in the post-colophon notes to the sacred city of Kāśī (Vārāṇasī) and the deity Viśveśvara who dwells there.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 13r); alternate title Raghusaptamasarga from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 13 leaves foliated 1-13, upper left verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant phrases, verse divisions and numbers highlighted in red throughout; some vertical margins marked with double red line. Folios are blue European paper.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

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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