Kirāṭaṭīkā. Sarga 14, 1743.
किराटटीका. सर्ग १४,

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Mallinātha.

Contributor:

Bālambhaṭa, Babar, scribe.

Standardized Title:

Ghaṇṭāpatha. Sarga 14

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Hindu mythology.

Bhāravi. Kirātārjunīya--Early works to 1800.

Hindu mythology--Early works to 1800.

Śiva (Hindu deity)--Early works to 1800.

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Arjuna (Hindu mythological character)--Early works to 1800.

Arjuna (Hindu mythological character).

Genre:

poems

commentaries

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (19 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 26 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2699

Place of Publication:

1743.

१७४३.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for contemplation and study and is part of a commentary on Bhāravi's poem Kirātārjunīya, a development and reinterpretation of a Hindu mythic story from the Mahābhārata about an encounter between the god Śiva and the epic hero Arjuna in which Śiva appears as a wild mountain man (Kirāta). Manuscript contains commentary on the fourteenth chapter (sarga), taken from the larger work of eighteen chapters.

Notes:

Title from abbreviations in margins.

Written in 8-11 lines per leaf.

19 leaves foliated 1-19, upper left and lower right verso.

Dated saṃvat 1800 (1743) (f. 19v).

Scribe is Babar Bālambhaṭa (f. 19v).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black 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 2048 (UP 2699).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2699.

OCLC:

974035323