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

Title

Authors

• Kālidāsa

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9975394073503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/974037498

Publisher

Language

Summary

Poem titled The rise of Nala, dealing with Sanskrit poetics and the life of the king Nala, a character from the Mahābhārata. Attributed to the poet Kālidāsa. An unidentified commentary appears in the margins on some folios in a very small scribal hand.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 11r).
   
• Written in 7-14 lines per leaf.
   
• 11 leaves foliated 1-11, 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 and quadruple red line.
   
• Watermarks of the letters G and A and part of a coat of arms.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology
• Nala (Hindu mythology)

Genres

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

Licenses

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