Details

Subjects:

Sanskrit poetry.
Aesthetics, Indic.
Sanskrit language -- Rhetoric.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Court poet of Manāmandalika and author of the Laṭakamelanaprahasana.

Summary:

Manuscript used for study and contemplation, is a poetic commentary (ṭīkā) of Sanskrit poetics, literary aesthetics, and rhetoric (alaṃkāraśāstra) for help with poetical compositions.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 10v).
Written in 8-12 lines per leaf.
10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīkavirājaśaṃkhadharaviracitākavikarpaṭīkaradhanasamāpta // (f. 18v).
Mistakes blacked out; some minor addition written in black in the 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 2422 (UP 513).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 513.

OCLC:

846857457