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Vāgbhūṣanakāvya, 1876.
वाग्भूषनकाव्य
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Rāmacandra, active 16th century.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Sanskrit poetry.
- Sanskrit language--Rhetoric.
- Sanskrit language.
- Aesthetics, Indic.
- Genre:
- treatises
- poems
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (8 leaves) : paper ; 15 x 20 cm (folded)
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1533
- Place of Publication:
- 1876.
- १८७६.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- A treatise or manual on Sanskrit rhetoric (alaṃkāraśāstra) and poetics.
- Notes:
- Scribe is Prabhākaraśīghra the son of Sadāśiva (f. 8r). This may be the same Sadāśiva who is the scribe of many other manuscripts at Penn Libraries, as well as a teacher of other scribes. Examples of his work include Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1279, Item 1280, and Item 1281.
- Written in 15-17 lines per leaf.
- 8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
- Dated śaka 1798 (1876) f. 8r).
- Mistakes blacked out; additions and corrections in margins.
- 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 2405 (UP 1533).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1533.
- OCLC:
- 927415445
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