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Damayantīkathā, circa 1700-1850.
दमयन्तीकथा
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Trivikramabhaṭṭa, active 10th century.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Damayantī (Hindu mythological character).
- Damayantī.
- Hindu mythology.
- Genre:
- poems
- drawings (visual works)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (53 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 26 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1504
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Poem telling the story of Damayantī, a princess in Hindu mythology who is an archetype of feminine beauty.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 53r).
- Written in 17 lines per leaf.
- 53 leaves foliated 1-53, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti trivikramamabhaṭṭaviracitāyāṃ vibudhajanamanohāriṇyāṃ damayaṃtīkathāyāṃ saptama ullvāsaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 53r).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line; there is a central design on each folio involving four characters.
- 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 2009 (UP 1504).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1504.
- OCLC:
- 926062517
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