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

Title

Authors

• Kālidāsa

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959622353503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/847746639
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5962235

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript used for recitation or contemplation and is comprised of four (1, 2, 4, and 7) of the total 19 chapters (sargas) of the work. Draws heavily from Hindu mythology and pantheons as well as assumes some knowledge of the storyline of the Rāmāyaṇa and its main characters and gives a genealogical account of Rāma's dynastic background and lineage. Work is full of rich, poetic imagery of flora and fauna and references to courtly life and Hindu dharma. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes

• Title from internal colophon (Part 2, f. 9v).
   
• Written in 5-7 lines per leaf.
   
• 34 leaves foliated (Part 1:) 1-9; (Part 2:) 1-9; (Part 4:) 3-9; (Part 7:) 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Internal colophon: iti śrīraghuvaṃśe mahākāvye kālidāsakṛtau naṃdinīvarapradānānāmadvitīyasargaḥ // 2 // (Part 2, f. 9v).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; many folios treated with yellow turmeric powder.
   

Extent

Support

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology
• Rāma (Hindu deity)
• Dharma

Genres

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

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