Details

Subjects:

Hindu mythology.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Arjuna (Hindu mythological character).

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

6th-century Sanskrit poet.

Summary:

Manuscript is an adaptation of a well known Hindu story originally derived from the Mahābhārata about an encounter between the epic hero Arjuna and the deity Śiva in his form as the Hunter or Mountain Man called Kirāta. Manuscript contains only the first and second of a total 18 sections (sarga) of the poem.

Notes:

Title from colophon (Part 2, f. 7v).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
13 leaves foliated (Part 1:) 3-8; (Part 2:) 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: itī śrī kurātārjunīye mahākāvye lakṣmyaṃke bhāravikṛtau vyāsāgamano nāmadvitīyaḥ sargaḥ (Part 2, f. 7v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; numbers highlighted in red throughout; vertical.

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 2037 (UP 534).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 534

OCLC:

851090115