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Title

Authors

• Bhāravi

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959689963503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/851090114
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5968996

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is an adaptation of a well known Hindu story originally derived from the Mahābhārata about an encounter between the epic hero Arjuna and the deity Śiva in his form as the Hunter or Mountain Man called Kirāta. Manuscript contains only the first and second of a total 18 sections (sarga) of the poem.

Notes

• Title from colophon (Part 2, f. 7v).
   
• Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 13 leaves foliated (Part 1:) 3-8; (Part 2:) 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; numbers highlighted in red throughout; vertical.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Arjuna (Hindu mythology)

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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