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Title

Kāvyaprakāśavyākhyā
काव्यप्रकाशव्याख्या

Authors

• Kamalākara

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 525
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959657713503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/849671474
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5965771

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is used for consultation and study and is a commentary (vyākhyā) and reflection on the Kāvyaprakāśa by Mammaṭācārya, which is a work on rhetoric and poetic composition literally meaning, Illustration of poetry. Manuscript also contains a supercommentary written in red ink above the main text.

Notes

• Title from back title page (f. 102v).
   
• Written in 9-13 lines per leaf.
   
• 102 leaves foliated 1-102, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout. Every second folio treated with yellow turmeric powder and metalic (possibly gold) flecks.
   

Extent

1 item (102 leaves) : 12 x 28 cm

Support

Paper

Subjects topical

• Sanskrit language--Versification
• Sanskrit poetry

Genres

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

Licenses

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