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

Title

Authors

• Kālidāsa

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962224753503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/881326647

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a work on Sanskrit prosody or versification., describing different kinds of poetic meter while using the meter itself to write the description. The title written in the colophon, Chandograntha or Verse book, is typically the subtitle of the more well known title Śrutabodha, which is written into the marginal abbreviations. Small chart of numbers and characters written on the front page (f. 1r).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 4r); alternate title Śrutabodha from marginal abbreviations.
   
• Written in 10 lines per leaf.
   
• 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1833 (1776) (f. 4r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Sanskrit language--Versification

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Table, f. 1r