Saṃjīvanī sarga 1, 1786.
संजीवनी सर्ग १

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Mallinātha.

Contributor:

Govinda Vidhyupākhya, scribe.

Standardized Title:

Sañjīvanī (Kumārasambhava) Selections

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Kārttikeya (Hindu deity).

Hindu mythology.

Kālidāsa. Kumārasambhava--Early works to 1800.

Kālidāsa.

Hindu mythology--Early works to 1800.

Kārttikeya (Hindu deity)--Early works to 1800.

Parvati (Hindu deity).

Parvati.

Genre:

commentaries

poems

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (18 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 24 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1520

Place of Publication:

1786.

१७८६.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is employed for contemplation and study and is a commentary by Mallinātha on the Kumārasambhava by Kālidāsa, the poem that deals with the birth of the Hindu deity Skanda (Kārttikeya); the first chapter (sarga) deals with the birth and life of the mother of Skanda, the goddess Umā, also known as Pārvatī.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 18r).

Written in 10 lines per leaf.

18 leaves foliated 1-18, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīpadavākyapramāṇapārāvārapārīṇamahopādhyākolacalamallināthasūriviracitāyāṃ kumārasaṃbhavaṭīkāyāṃ saṃdehaviṣauṣadhyāṃ saṃjīvinīsamākhyāyāṃ prathamasargaḥ // śrī // śubhaṃ bhavatu // śrīviśveśvarāya namaḥ // (f. 18r).

Dated saṃvat 1843 (1786) (f. 18r).

Scribe is Govinda Vidhyupākhya from Vārāṇasī (f. 18r).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some numbers and words highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double red 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 1941 (UP 1520).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1520.

OCLC:

913793613