Nalodaya. Ullāsas 1-2, circa 1700-1850.
नलोदय. उल्लास १-२,

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Kālidāsa, attributed name.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Mahābhārata.

Mahābhārata.

Hindu mythology.

Nala (Hindu mythological character).

Genre:

poems

commentaries

watermarks

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

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

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2711

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Poem titled The rise of Nala, dealing with Sanskrit poetics and the life of the king Nala, a character from the Mahābhārata. Attributed to the poet Kālidāsa. An unidentified commentary appears in the margins on some folios in a very small scribal hand.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 11r).

Written in 7-14 lines per leaf.

Colophon: iti śrīkālidāsakṛtau nalodaye dvitīya ullāsaḥ // (f. 11r).

11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left verso.

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant phrases, verse divisions and numbers highlighted in red throughout; some vertical margins marked with double and quadruple red line.

Watermarks of the letters G and A and part of a coat of arms.

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 1944 (UP 2711).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2711.

OCLC:

974037498