Details

Subjects:

Sanskrit language -- Versification.
Sanskrit language.
Poetics.
Sanskrit language -- Rhetoric.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuals (instructional materials)
Commentaries.
Drawings (visual works)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for study and consultation and is a treatise, manual or textbook designed for students learning the various components as well as appreciation of the aesthetics or ornamentation (alaṃkāra) of Sanskrit poetry. Contains a commentary by Vaidyanātha called the Alaṃkāracandrikā running parallel, above and below the root text.

Notes:

Title from end title page (f. 62v); title of commentary Alaṃkāracandrikā from incipit (f. 1r).
Written in 12-19 lines per leaf.
62 leaves foliated 1-62, middle right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line; decorative border on final title page (f. 62v).

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 2347 (UP 1473).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1473.

Contains:

Alaṃkāracandrikā.

OCLC:

910919356