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

Title

Authors

• Kālidāsa

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959657703503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/849671469
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5965770

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript for private contemplation or public recitation/performance and is a full version of the dramatic retelling of the Hindu mythological figure Śakuntalā, an orphan girl from the union of a renunciant and a heavenly nymph (apsarā). The narrative follows the love affair and marriage between Śakuntalā and king Duṣana and their various trials and adventures. Originally told in the epic Mahābhārata, the story was adapted by the poet Kālidāsa in the 5th century.

Notes

• Title from margin abbreviations throughout, upper left verso.
   
• Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 37 leaves foliated 1-37, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1825 (1768) (f. 37v).
   
• 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 quadruple black line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology
• Love--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Love poetry, Indic
• Śakuntalā (Hindu mythology) in literature
• Orphans in literature
• Plays (document genre)

Genres

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

Licenses

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