Ghaṇṭāpatha, circa 1700-1850.
घण्टापथ

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Mallinātha.

Standardized Title:

Ghaṇṭāpatha. Selections

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Bhāravi. Kirātārjunīya.

Bhāravi.

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Śiva.

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Arjuna (Hindu mythological character).

Arjuna.

Hindu mythology.

Genre:

poems

commentaries

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (29 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 28 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1551

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 parts of the second and fourth sections (sarga) of the larger commentary of eighteen. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 50r).

Written in 12-15 lines per leaf.

29 leaves foliated 12-20, 31-50, upper left and lower right verso.

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins 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 2047 (UP 1551).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1551.

OCLC:

927115476