Vikramorvaśī, 1804.
विक्रमोर्वशी

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Kālidāsa.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Hindu mythology.

Love--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Love.

Love poetry, Indic.

Genre:

poems

plays (performing arts compositions)

comedies (literary genre)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (31 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 27 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 523

Place of Publication:

1804.

१८०४.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for recitation, and contemplation and is a romantic comedy in five acts telling of the forbidden love affair between an earthly king named Purūravas and a heavenly nymph (apsarā) named Urvaśī.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 31v).

Written in 9 lines per leaf.

31 leaves foliated 1-31, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti niṣkrā[n]tā[s]sarve paṃcamākaḥ // vikramasaṃvasarevetre paurṇimāyāṃ likhitaṃ mukudadevavana // vikrarmorvaśākālidāsaḥ // saṃva[t] 1861 // (f. 31v).

Dated saṃvat 1861 (1804) (f. 31v).

Mistakes blacked out; 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 2238 (UP 523).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 523

OCLC:

849656836