Naiṣadhacarita, 1801.
नैषधचरित

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Śrīharṣa, active 12th century.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Nala (Hindu mythological character).

Damayantī (Hindu mythological character).

Hindu mythology.

Marriage--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Genre:

poems

drawings (visual works)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (183 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 24 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1521

Place of Publication:

1801.

१८०१.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript of the Hindu epic love story about Nala, king of the Niṣadas, and his wife Damayantī, how they came to be married and their subsequent exploits.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 182v).

Written in 8-15 lines per leaf.

183 leaves foliated 1-180, 182-183, [184], upper left and lower right verso.

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; several folios from the original manuscript have been replaced with new folios written in a second scribal hand, but following the original foliation; several doodles are found in the margins; significant numbers, letters, words, and phrases are highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double black lines..

Colophon: iti śrī harṣakṛtaṃ naiṣadhakāvyaṃ samāptaṃ // 22 // śrī // (f. 182v).

Dated saṃvat 1858 (1801) (f. 183r); however the date is on a replacement folio, by a second scribal hand, so the original manuscript may be much earlier than this date.

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 2093 (UP 1521).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1521.

OCLC:

913796579