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Title

Sāhityadarpaṇa
साहित्यदर्पण

Authors

• Viśvanātha Kavirāja

Other related names

• Josā Puṣkar, scribe

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 521
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959625323503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/847759106
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5962532

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is used for study and contemplation and is a treatise on the aesthetics of poetry dealing with the nature of poetry, rasa (flavor), ornamentation, and a variety of other topics; title translates as Mirror of composition. Manuscript is missing some folios.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 154v).
   
• Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 147 leaves foliated 1-18, 26-35,35-59, 61-154, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1731 (1674) (f. 154v).
   
• Scribe is Josā Puṣkar (f. 154v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with triple black or red line.
   

Extent

1 item (147 leaves) : 11 x 26 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: ity ālaṃkārikavakravarttidhvaniprasthānaparamācāryāśeṣabhāṣāvilāsinībhujaṃgasāhityārṇavakarṇaddhāramahāpātraśrīviśvanāthakavirājakṛte sāhityadarpaṇe daśamaḥ paricchedaḥ // s[ā]hityadarpaṇo 'yaṃ samāptimāgat // saṃvat 1731 varṣeje[ṣṭha] 1 ravire dīne pustakaṃ l[i]khyataṃ josā puṣkar // (f. 154v).

Subjects topical

• Sanskrit poetry
• Aesthetics--Poetry
• Rasas--Poetry

Genres

• Treatises
• Prayers
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--17th century
• Manuscripts--India--17th century

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