Abhinayadarpaṇa, after 1913.
अभिनयदर्पण

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Nandikeśvara

Contributor:

Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. (Ananda Kentish), 1877-1947, scribe, former owner.

Language:

Sanskrit

Sinhalese

Subjects (All):

Vālmīki. Rāmāyaṇa.

Hindu goddesses.

Buddhist goddesses.

Sinhalese poetry.

Songs, Sinhalese.

Gesture--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Gesture in dance--India.

Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)

Poems.

Songs (documents)

Treatises.

Translations (documents)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 20th century.

Manuscripts, Sinhalese -- 20th century.

Manuscripts, American -- 20th century.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy and presented to an unknown recipient, possibly the University of Pennsylvania.

Physical Description:

1 item (95 leaves) : paper ; 21 x 33 cm.

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2840

Place of Publication:

after 1913.

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Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī) and Sinhalese.

Summary:

Manuscript written in an American academic notebook by the art historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy sometime after 1913. It contains three works, two in Sinhalese and one in Sanskrit. The two Sinhalese works are Aṅkeli upata and Kalageḍimāle. The Aṅkeli upata is a poem about the birth of a goddess and her interactions with human kings and princes. The Kalageḍimāle is a song, possibly related to themes from the Rāmāyaṇa. The longest of the three is in Sanskrit in Devanagari script, the Abhinayadarpaṇa. This last work contains parts of a translation of this Sanskrit treatise on gesture, the arts, theater and dance and which was published by Harvard in 1917.

Notes:

All titles from title plate on inside front cover.

Written in 34 ruled lines per leaf.

95 leaves paginated 1-190, upper left and upper right verso.

Dated after 1913 according to a citation note inserted into the manuscript (p. 41).

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

American academic bound notebook, common in early 20th-century academic circles.

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 7188 and 7273 (UP 2840).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2840.

Contains:

Aṅkeli upata

Kalageḍimāle

OCLC:

1001282226