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

Title

Authors

• Māgha

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959657473503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/849671288
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5965747

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Language

Summary

Manuscript titled Death of Śiśupāla, used for recitation, contemplation, and study; draws from epic mythology about king Śiśupāla who opposes the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa who cuts off his head with his discus (cakra). Manuscript is incomplete and comprises only part of the fourth of 23 books.

Notes

• Manuscript formerly housed with Ms. Coll. 390 Item 3044.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 3 leaves foliated 3-5, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins in red ink; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line. One folio treated with yellow turmeric powder.
   

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Support

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology
• Krishna (Hindu deity)
• Death--Poetry

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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