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Kumārasambhavalaghuṭīlā sarga 8, 1611.
कुमारसम्भवलघुटीका सर्ग ८
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1499
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Vallabhadeva, active 10th century.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Kārttikeya (Hindu deity).
- Hindu mythology.
- Kālidāsa. Kumārasambhava--Early works to 1800.
- Hindu mythology--Early works to 1800.
- Kārttikeya (Hindu deity)--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- commentaries
- poems
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (13 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 23 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1499
- Place of Publication:
- 1611.
- १६११.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Jain Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is a commentary on the eighth part (sarga) of Kālidāsa's poem about the birth of the Hindu deity Skanda (Kārttikeya). Originally part of a larger work.
- Notes:
- Title from internal colophon (f. 6r).
- Written in 13 lines per leaf.
- 13 leaves foliated 1-13, upper left verso, and foliated 168-180, lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrī ā[nanda]devātmajavallabhādevaviracitāyāṃ kumārasaṃbhavalaghuṭīkāyāṃ [??]tasārāy[ā]ṃ [ā]ṣṭamasarga / samāptaḥ // 8 // (f. 13v).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line; written in a script usually seen in Jain works.
- Dated saṃvat 1668 (1611) (f. 13v).
- 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 1942 (UP 1499).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1499.
- OCLC:
- 913786841
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