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Title

Kirātārjunīya
किरातार्जुनीय

Authors

• Bhāravi
• Mallinātha

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 493
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959555623503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/844236136
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5955562

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is an adaptation of a well known Hindu story originally derived from the Mahābhārata about an encounter between the epic hero Arjuna and the deity Śiva in his form as the Hunter or Mountain Man called Kirāta. Manuscript contains only the first three and the fifth of a total 18 sections (sarga) of the poem. Manuscript has a commentary by Mallinātha that runs parallel, above and below the main text by Bhāravi.

Notes

• Title from colophon (Part 5, f. 14v); title of commentary Ghaṇṭāpatha from colophon (Part 5, f. 14v).
   
• Written in 7-14 lines per leaf.
   
• 67 leaves foliated (Parts 1-3:) 1-19, 1-17, 1-17; (Part 5:) 1-14, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   

Extent

1 item (67 leaves) : 13 x 32 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrī pādavākyapramāṇapārāvīrīṇamahopādhyāya kol[a]calamallināthasūriviracitāyāṃ kīrātārjunīyavyākhyāyāṃ ghaṇṭāpathasamakhyāyāṃ paṃcamaḥ sargaḥ // 5 // (Part 5, f. 14v).

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Arjuna (Hindu mythology)

Genres

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

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