Laṭakamelakaprahasana, 1684.
लटकमेलकप्रहसन

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Śaṅkhadhara.

Contributor:

ParvaṇIkara Govindabhaṭṭaputra, former owner.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Monastic and religious life (Jainism).

Buddhist monks.

Jainism.

Jainism--Drama--Early works to 1800.

Buddhist monks--Drama--Early works to 1800.

Monastic and religious life (Jainism)--Drama--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Drama.

plays (performing arts compositions)

satires (literary genre)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by ParvaṇIkara Govindabhaṭṭaputra.

Physical Description:

1 item (11 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 22 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1567

Place of Publication:

1684.

१६८४.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Sanskrit religious drama and satire, exploring inter-religious themes and interactions between religious figures, especially Buddhist and Jain monks with an undertone of humor possibly as a kind of social critique.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 11r).

Written in 14-16 lines per leaf.

11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: samāptam idaṃ laṭakamelśubhaṃ astu // saṃvat 1741 mārgaśīrṣaśuddhaṃ campāṃ likhitam idaṃ parvaṇīkaravīreśvareṇāṃ bāvatyam // svārthaṃ parārthaṃ ca śrīrāmacaṃrārpaṇam astu // (f. 11r).

Dated saṃvat 1741 (1684) (f. 11r).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant words and phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black lines.

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 2292 (UP 1567).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1567.

OCLC:

927415588