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

Title

Authors

• Māgha

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9976091343503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/974796499

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript titled Death of Śiśupāla, used for recitation, contemplation, and study; draws from epic mythology about king Śiśupāla, who opposes the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa, who cuts off Śiśupāla's head with his discus (cakra). Manuscript is incomplete and comprises only part of the first of 23 books, from verse 44 until the end.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 6v); alternate title Māghakāvya from abbreviations in margins.
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 3 leaves foliated 4-6, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; minor correction in margins; some folios treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect the manuscript from insects.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology
• Death--Poetry

Genres

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

Licenses

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