Details

Subjects:

Kārttikeya (Hindu deity).
Hindu mythology.
Kālidāsa. Kumārasambhava -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu mythology -- Early works to 1800.
Kārttikeya (Hindu deity) -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Jain Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a commentary on the eighth part (sarga) of Kālidāsa's poem about the birth of the Hindu deity Skanda (Kārttikeya). Originally part of a larger work.

Notes:

Title from internal colophon (f. 6r).
Written in 13 lines per leaf.
13 leaves foliated 1-13, upper left verso, and foliated 168-180, lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrī ā[nanda]devātmajavallabhādevaviracitāyāṃ kumārasaṃbhavalaghuṭīkāyāṃ [??]tasārāy[ā]ṃ [ā]ṣṭamasarga / samāptaḥ // 8 // (f. 13v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line; written in a script usually seen in Jain works.
Dated saṃvat 1668 (1611) (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 1942 (UP 1499).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1499.

OCLC:

913786841