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Kavirahasya, circa 1700-1850.
कविरहस्य
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1571
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Halāyudha, active 10th century.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Sanskrit language.
- Sanskrit language--Grammar.
- Sanskrit language--Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- treatises
- poems
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (20 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 23 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1571
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Text is a treatise on Sanskrit grammatical roots that also doubles as a poem of praise (praśasti) of the Rāṣṭrakūṭa king, Kṛṣṇa III.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 20v).
- Written in 6-8 lines per leaf.
- 20 leaves foliated 1-20, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrīkavirahasyaṃ samāptaṃ // (f. 20v).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables and verse dividers highlighted in red throughout; 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 2654 (UP 1571).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1571.
- OCLC:
- 927150975
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