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

Title

Authors

• Māgha

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959690133503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/851102682
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5969013

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript titled Death of Śiśupāla, used for recitation, contemplation, and study; draws from epic mythology, especially the Mahābhārata, about king Śiśupāla who opposes the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa. In response, Kṛṣṇa cuts off his head with his discus (cakra). Manuscript contains parts of the third and fourth sections (sargas) and is incomplete.

Notes

• Title from colophon (Part 2, f. 7r).
   
• Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 10 leaves foliated (Part 1:) 1-6; (Part 2:) 1-2, 6-7, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1889 (1832) (Part 2, f. 7r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; some vertical margins marked with double red line. Several folios treated with yellow turmeric powder.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

Licenses

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