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Śiśupālavadha, circa 1700-1850.
शिशुपालवध
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1560
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Māgha.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Krishna (Hindu deity).
- Sacrifice--Hinduism.
- Hindu mythology.
- Genre:
- poems
- commentaries
- watermarks
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (10 leaves) : paper ; 31 x 11 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1560
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript contains a version of the ancient Hindu legend wherein a demon is born into the world as a king named Śiśupāla who wants to deny Kṛṣṇa participation in a royal sacrifice. He challenges Kṛṣna to a fight, whereupon he is slain; manuscript also contains an unidentified commentary running parallel above and below the root text.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 10r).
- Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
- 10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
- Watermarks of a fleur-de-lis and part of a name.
- 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 2064 (UP 1560).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1560.
- OCLC:
- 927415584
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