Ghaṇṭāpatha, circa 1700-1850.
घण्टापथ.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Mallinātha.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Bhāravi. Kirātārjunīya.

Bhāravi.

Hindu mythology.

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Śiva.

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Arjuna (Hindu mythological character).

Arjuna.

Genre:

Commentaries.

Poems.

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (25 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 32 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1500

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for contemplation and study and is part of a commentary on Bhāravi's poem Kirātārjunīya, a development and reinterpretation of a Hindu mythic story from the Mahābhārata about an encounter between the god Śiva and the epic hero Arjuna in which Śiva appears as a wild mountain man (Kirāta). Manuscript contains commentary on the first and part of the second and fifth chapters (sarga) of the larger work of eighteen. A section of the manuscript is missing (f. 20-38).

Notes:

Title from commentary colophon (f. 44r).

Written in 13-18 lines per leaf.

25 leaves foliated 1-19, 39-44, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīpadavākyapramāṇapārāvārīṇāṃ mahopādhyāya kolācalamallīnāthasuriviracitāyāṃ kirātārjunīyākhyāyāṃ ghaṃṭāpathasamākhyāyāṃ himavadvarṇabhonāmapaṃcamaḥ sargaḥ samāptiṃ phāpeṇa // śrīśubham astu // śrīsāṃbasadāśivārpaṇam astu // (f. 44r).

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margin 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 2046 (UP 1500).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1500.

OCLC:

913787062