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Śrutabodha, 1832.
श्रुतबोध
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Kālidāsa, attributed name.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Sanskrit language--Versification.
- Sanskrit language.
- Genre:
- poems
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (7 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 17 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 799
- Other Title:
- Chandograntha.
- Place of Publication:
- 1832.
- १८३२.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Biography/History:
- Work attributed in manuscript to Kālidāsa (f. 7r), but may have been written by Vararuci.
- Summary:
- Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a work on Sanskrit prosody or versification., describing different kinds of poetic meter while using the meter itself to write the description.
- Notes:
- Scribe is Vināyaka Ādivrekara, the son of Bālambhaṭṭa Ādivrekara (f. 7r).
- Title from colophon (f. 7r); alternate title Chandograntha supplied by cataloger.
- Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
- 7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrīkavikālidāsakṛtaśrutavodhaḥ samāptim agamat // (f. 7r).
- Dated saṃvat 1889 (1832) (f. 7r).
- Mistakes 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 2774 (UP 799).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 799
- OCLC:
- 881326572
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