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Caurapañcāśikā, 1803.
चौरपञ्चाशिका
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Bilhaṇa, active 11th century.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Erotic literature, Indic.
- Durgā (Hindu deity).
- Durgā.
- Love poetry, Indic.
- Hindu mythology.
- Genre:
- poems
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 25 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 528
- Place of Publication:
- 1803.
- १८०३.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Biography/History:
- Attributed to Cora, another name for Bilhaṇa, in the colophon (f. 2v)
- Summary:
- Manuscript used for recitation or contemplation and is comprised of the full 50 verses of the love poem, loosely translated by B.S. Miller as Phantasies of a love thief, wherein a woman longs for her lost lover and the goddess Dūrgā.
- Notes:
- Scribe is Vināyaka Āḍiśekara son of Bālakṛṣṇabhaṭṭa (f. 2v).
- Title from colophon (f. 2v).
- Written in 9-22 lines per leaf.
- 2 leaves foliated [1-2], lower left verso.
- Colophon: iti śrīsamastavidyāraviṃdamārtaṃḍaravaṃḍitasarvavidyāsarva[v]ipakṣamano 'pakārasaṃtuṣṭīkṛtasu[???]āṇasamūdrasūrirāmopādhyāya sūnur gaṇapatiś corapaṃcāśikāyāḥ [kau]ravacaṃdrikāravyam arīracat // brahmāvarte śrāvaṇakṛṣṇe 7 saḥ 1860 āḍiśekaradas upanāmakabālakṛṣṇabhaṭṭāramajavināyakena likhitam idaṃ pustakam (f. 2).
- Dated saṃvat 1860 (1803) (f. 2v); date is abbreviated as "saḥ" but should read saṃvat given that a śaka date of 1938 A.D. would post-date its inclusion in the Penn collection.
- Mistakes blacked out; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
- 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 2138 (UP 528).
- Listed in Barbara Stoller Miller, Phantasies of a Love-thief: The Caurapañcāśikā Attributed to Bilhaṇa (New York: Columbia University Press, 1971), Miller PU.1--No. 528.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 528
- OCLC:
- 851091031
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