Details

Subjects:

Hindu mythology.
Children's literature -- Stories, plots, etc.
Children's literature.

Form/Genre:

Stories, plots, etc.
Poems.
Facsimiles.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Plot summaries.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Bengali)

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Summary:

Collection of animal stories written for children, primarily princes, to impart lessons of good rulership; there are two additional partial texts at the end of the manuscript (f. i-vi) which were part of the family library that this manuscript was orginally part of.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Comilla, Bangladesh Rāmamālā Library, Mahesh Charitable Trust
Written in 2-7 lines per folio.
86 leaves foliated 1-32, 32-42, 42-46, 48-79, [i-vi], middle right verso.
Title from incipit (f. 1v).
Mistakes covered over in white or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some folios treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect the manuscript from insects.
Dimensions of original manuscript: 10 x 42 cm.
Reproduced from the original with permission of the Mahesh Charitable Trust under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.
Notes and numbers written in a modern Bengali hand: 126 na; Vi: 49; Kra: 150.
Scribe is Rāmaratna Śarmman (f. 79r).

Contributor:

Rāmaratna Śarmman, scribe.

OCLC:

920552072