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Vidagdhamukhamaṇḍaṇa circa 1750-1899.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Web Rāmamālā Library 906
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Puzzles--Poetry.
- Puzzles.
- Hindu mythology.
- Genre:
- commentaries
- poems
- facsimiles (reproductions)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (7 leaves) : illustrations
- Contained In:
- Rāmamālā Library 906
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1750-1899.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Bengali)
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Summary:
- A Kind of Sanskrit poem (kāvya), in which the verses (ślokas) are not interrelated, and each one has two meanings, like a kind of poetic riddle. Verses explore themes from the Mahābhārata and other mythology. Unknown commentary notes are written in the margins to aid in discerning the hidden meaning.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Comilla, Bangladesh Rāmamālā Library, Mahesh Charitable Trust
- Written in 4-7 lines per folio.
- 7 leaves foliated 1-7, middle right and middle verso; one photo of news paper wrapping.
- Title from colophon (f. 7r).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
- Notes and numbers written on manuscript: No. Kra: 5697; Kāvya: 367
- Dimensions of original manuscript: 8 x 37 cm.
- Scribe is Kālīnātha Śarmmaṇa (f. 7r).
- Reproduced from the original with permission of the Mahesh Charitable Trust under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.
- OCLC:
- 914251391
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