Details

Subjects:

Hindu mythology.
Nala (Hindu mythological character).
Damayantī (Hindu mythological character).
Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is employed for recitation and consultation and is the fourteenth chapter of the well known Hindu epic love story, as retold by Śrīharśa, about Nala, king of the Niṣadas, and his wife Damayantī.

Notes:

Title from marginal abbreviations.
Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some verse dividers in red; vertical margins marked with double red line; some folios covered with yellow turmeric powder to protect the manuscript from insects.

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 2090 (UP 1475).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1475.

OCLC:

910915688