Details

Standardized Title:

Sañjīvanī (Kumārasambhava) Selections

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.
Parvati (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is employed for contemplation and study and is a commentary by Mallinātha on the Kumārasambhava by Kālidāsa, the poem that deals with the birth of the Hindu deity Skanda (Kārttikeya); the first chapter (sarga) deals with the birth and life of the mother of Skanda, the goddess Umā, also known as Pārvatī.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 18r).
Written in 10 lines per leaf.
18 leaves foliated 1-18, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīpadavākyapramāṇapārāvārapārīṇamahopādhyākolacalamallināthasūriviracitāyāṃ kumārasaṃbhavaṭīkāyāṃ saṃdehaviṣauṣadhyāṃ saṃjīvinīsamākhyāyāṃ prathamasargaḥ // śrī // śubhaṃ bhavatu // śrīviśveśvarāya namaḥ // (f. 18r).
Dated saṃvat 1843 (1786) (f. 18r).
Scribe is Govinda Vidhyupākhya from Vārāṇasī (f. 18r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some numbers and words highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double red line.

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 1941 (UP 1520).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1520.

Contributor:

Govinda Vidhyupākhya, scribe.

OCLC:

913793613