Veṇīsaṃhāra, circa 1700-1850.
वेणीसंहार

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Hair.

Hair--Drama.

Revenge--Drama.

Revenge.

Gambling--Drama.

Gambling.

Non-monogamous relationships.

Hindu mythology.

Yudhiṣṭhira (Hindu mythology).

Bhīma (Hindu mythological character).

Bhīma.

Draupadī (Hindu mythological character).

Draupadī.

Genre:

Drama.

poems

plays (performing arts compositions)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (44 leaves) : paper ; 9 x 22 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 539

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

9th-century Sanskrit playwright.

Summary:

Manuscript used for recitation or performance and contains a retelling of a story from the Hindu epic the Mahābhārata wherein after king Yudhiṣṭhira loses all his family's possessions in a gambling match, his wife Draupadī is humiliated and her hair unbraided; her other husband Bhīma (in a polyandry) vows revenge.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).

Written in 5-6 lines per leaf.

44 leaves foliated 1-2, 4, 6-31, 33-47, upper left and lower right verso.

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; 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 2265 (UP 539).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 539

OCLC:

851097243