Details

Subjects:

Erotic literature, Indic.
Durgā (Hindu deity).
Love poetry, Indic.
Hindu mythology.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Attributed to Cora, another name for Bilhaṇa, in the colophon (f. 2v)

Summary:

Manuscript used for recitation or contemplation and is comprised of the full 50 verses of the love poem, loosely translated by B.S. Miller as Phantasies of a love thief, wherein a woman longs for her lost lover and the goddess Dūrgā.

Notes:

Scribe is Vināyaka Āḍiśekara son of Bālakṛṣṇabhaṭṭa (f. 2v).
Title from colophon (f. 2v).
Written in 9-22 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated [1-2], lower left verso.
Colophon: iti śrīsamastavidyāraviṃdamārtaṃḍaravaṃḍitasarvavidyāsarva[v]ipakṣamano 'pakārasaṃtuṣṭīkṛtasu[???]āṇasamūdrasūrirāmopādhyāya sūnur gaṇapatiś corapaṃcāśikāyāḥ [kau]ravacaṃdrikāravyam arīracat // brahmāvarte śrāvaṇakṛṣṇe 7 saḥ 1860 āḍiśekaradas upanāmakabālakṛṣṇabhaṭṭāramajavināyakena likhitam idaṃ pustakam (f. 2).
Dated saṃvat 1860 (1803) (f. 2v); date is abbreviated as "saḥ" but should read saṃvat given that a śaka date of 1938 A.D. would post-date its inclusion in the Penn collection.
Mistakes blacked out; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.

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 2138 (UP 528).
Listed in Barbara Stoller Miller, Phantasies of a Love-thief: The Caurapañcāśikā Attributed to Bilhaṇa (New York: Columbia University Press, 1971), Miller PU.1--No. 528.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 528

Contributor:

Vināyaka Āḍiśekara (Son of Bālakṛṣṇabhaṭṭa), scribe.

OCLC:

851091031