Details

Standardized Title:

Kumārasambhava. Selections

Subjects:

Hindu mythology.
Parvati (Hindu deity).
Kārttikeya (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is the first and most of the second part of Kālidāsa's poem about the birth of the Hindu deity Skanda, also known as Kārttikeya; the first part deals with the birth and life of the mother of Skanda, the Hindu goddess Umā, also known as Pārvatī.

Notes:

Title from internal colophon (f. 6r).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
13 leaves foliated 1-13, upper left and lower right verso.
Internal colophon: iti śrīkumārasaṃbhave mahākāvye kālidāsakṛtāv umotpattirnāmaprathamaḥ sargaḥ // 1 // (f. 6r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line.
Scribe is Lakṣmīkānta Bhaṭa (f. 13v).

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 1934 (UP 1494).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1494.

Contributor:

Lakṣmīkānta Bhaṭa, scribe.

OCLC:

913786627