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Kavikarpaṭīkā 1700-1850.
कविकर्पटीका

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 513
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Format:
Manuscript
Author/Creator:
Kavirāja Śaṅkadhara.
Language:
Sanskrit
Subjects (All):
Sanskrit poetry.
Aesthetics, Indic.
Sanskrit language--Rhetoric.
Genre:
commentaries
poems
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Physical Description:
1 item (10 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 24 cm
Contained In:
Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 513
Place of Publication:
1700-1850.
१७००-१८५०.
Language Note:
In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
Biography/History:
Court poet of Manāmandalika and author of the Laṭakamelanaprahasana.
Summary:
Manuscript used for study and contemplation, is a poetic commentary (ṭīkā) of Sanskrit poetics, literary aesthetics, and rhetoric (alaṃkāraśāstra) for help with poetical compositions.
Notes:
Title from colophon (f. 10v).
Written in 8-12 lines per leaf.
10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīkavirājaśaṃkhadharaviracitākavikarpaṭīkaradhanasamāpta // (f. 18v).
Mistakes blacked out; some minor addition written in black in the margins; vertical margins marked with double black line.
Cited in:
Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 2422 (UP 513).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 513.
OCLC:
846857457

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