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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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