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Kumārasambhava, 1799.
कुमारसम्भव
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1573
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Kālidāsa.
- Standardized Title:
- Kumārasambhava. Selections
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Marriage--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Kārttikeya (Hindu deity).
- Hindu mythology.
- Hindu mythology--Early works to 1800.
- Kārttikeya (Hindu deity)--Early works to 1800.
- Parvati (Hindu deity)--Early works to 1800.
- Parvati.
- Parvati (Hindu deity).
- Śiva (Hindu deity)--Early works to 1800.
- Śiva.
- SÌiva (Hindu deity).
- Marriage--Religious aspects--Hinduism--Early works to 1800.
- Marriage.
- Genre:
- poems
- commentaries
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (92 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 28 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1573
- Place of Publication:
- 1799.
- १७९९.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is part of Kālidāsa's well known poem, from the middle of the third chapter to the end of the seventh chapter, about the birth of the Hindu deity Skanda-Kārttikeya, dealing with the mythology of the relationship between the deities Pārvatī (Gaurī) and Śiva, their courtship and marriage. A commentary by Mallinātha runs parallel above and below the root text. Manuscript is incomplete.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 26r); title of commentary Sañjīvanī from commentary colophon (f. 26v).
- Written in 9-12 lines per leaf.
- 92 leaves foliated 61-126, 1-26, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrīśrīkumārasaṃbhave mahākāvye kaviśrīkālikdāsakṛtau gaurīpariṇayano nāmasaptaḥ sargaḥ 7 (f. 26r).
- Dated saṃvat 1856 (1799) (f. 26v).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red through the first half of the manuscript.
- 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 1938 (UP 1573).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1573.
- Contains:
- Mallinātha. Sañjīvanī (Kumārasambhava). Selections.
- OCLC:
- 927151210
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