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

Title

Authors

• Kālidāsa

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959657693503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/849674790
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5965769

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript used for recitation, and contemplation and is a romantic comedy in five acts telling of the forbidden love affair between an earthly king named Purūravas and a heavenly nymph (apsarā) named Urvaśī.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 31v).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 31 leaves foliated 1-31, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1861 (1804) (f. 31v).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology
• Love--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Love poetry, Indic

Genres

• Poems
• Plays (document genre)
• Comedies
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

• Text

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