Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2711: Nalodaya. University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2711: Nalodaya. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is ©2017 University of Pennsylvania Books & Manuscripts and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Title from colophon (f. 11r). Written in 7-14 lines per leaf. 11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left verso. Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant phrases, verse divisions and numbers highlighted in red throughout; some vertical margins marked with double and quadruple red line. Watermarks of the letters G and A and part of a coat of arms. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2711 9975394073503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/974037498 Poem titled The rise of Nala, dealing with Sanskrit poetics and the life of the king Nala, a character from the Mahābhārata. Attributed to the poet Kālidāsa. An unidentified commentary appears in the margins on some folios in a very small scribal hand. In Sanskrit Nalodaya. नलोदय Kālidāsa Colophon: iti śrīkālidāsakṛtau nalodaye dvitīya ullāsaḥ // (f. 11r).

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 1 item (11 leaves) : 11 x 22 cm Hindu mythology Nala (Hindu mythology) Poems Commentaries Watermarks Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century Manuscripts--India--18th century Manuscripts--India--19th century