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Title

Veṇīsaṃhāra
वेणीसंहार

Authors

• Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 539
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959690023503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/851097242
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5969002

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript used for recitation or performance and contains a retelling of a story from the Hindu epic the Mahābhārata wherein after king Yudhiṣṭhira loses all his family's possessions in a gambling match, his wife Draupadī is humiliated and her hair unbraided; her other husband Bhīma (in a polyandry) vows revenge.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 5-6 lines per leaf.
   
• 44 leaves foliated 1-2, 4, 6-31, 33-47, 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.
   

Extent

1 item (44 leaves) : 9 x 22 cm

Support

Paper

Subjects topical

• Hair--Drama
• Revenge--Drama
• Gambling--Drama
• Non-monogamous relationships
• Hindu mythology
• Yudhiṣṭhira (Hindu mythology)
• Bhīma (Hindu mythology)
• Draupadī (Hindu mythology)

Genres

• Poems
• Plays (document genre)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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