Details

Subjects:

Hindu mythology.
Love -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Love poetry, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Plays (document genre)
Comedies.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for recitation, and contemplation and is a romantic comedy in five acts telling of the forbidden love affair between an earthly king named Purūravas and a heavenly nymph (apsarā) named Urvaśī.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 31v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
31 leaves foliated 1-31, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti niṣkrā[n]tā[s]sarve paṃcamākaḥ // vikramasaṃvasarevetre paurṇimāyāṃ likhitaṃ mukudadevavana // vikrarmorvaśākālidāsaḥ // saṃva[t] 1861 // (f. 31v).
Dated saṃvat 1861 (1804) (f. 31v).
Mistakes blacked out; 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 2238 (UP 523).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 523

OCLC:

849656836