Details

Standardized Title:

Kirātārjunīya. Selections

Subjects:

Hindu mythology.
Siva (Hindu deity) -- Early works to 1800.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Arjuna (Hindu mythological character) -- Early works to 1800.
Arjuna (Hindu mythological character).
Hindu mythology -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Bharavi's development and reinterpretation of a Hindu mythic story from the Mahābhārata about an encounter between the god Śiva and the epic hero Arjuna in which Śiva appears as a wild mountain man (Kirāta). Manuscript is incomplete missing the first three and ninth of eighteen chapters (sargas).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 82r).
Written in 6-10 lines per leaf.
76 leaves foliated 12-44, 40-82, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīkirātārjunIye mahākāvye lakṣṃyaṃ ke bhāravikṛtau dhanaṃ jayasya astra lābho nāmāṣṭādaśaḥ sargaḥ // śrīgajānanārpaṇam astu // (f. 82r).
Dated śaka 1677 (1755) (f. 82r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; some vertical margins marked with double red line. Manuscript was written by two different scribes.
Second scribe is Beḍekara Govindabhaṭṭa (f. 40r-82r; name on f. 82r).

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 2039 (UP 1540).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1540.

Contributor:

Beḍekara Govindabhaṭṭa, scribe.

OCLC:

913796610