Details

Subjects:

Krishna (Hindu deity).
Love poetry, Indic.
Hindu mythology.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Facsimiles.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Bengali)

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Biography/History:

Author named Śrīkṛṣṇa Sārvvabhauma in other examples of this text (eg. RLMS 1047, f. 24v).

Summary:

Poem is written from the perspective of a gopī (cowherdess) who longs to be with Kṛṣṇa and encounters his footprint (padāṅka) which she treats as the messenger (dūta) of the god who will send her love and emotion to him.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Comilla, Bangladesh Rāmamālā Library, Mahesh Charitable Trust
Written in 4-5 lines per folio.
6 leaves foliated 1-6, middle right verso.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; paper treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect from insects.
Dimensions of original manuscript: 8 x 44 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: Kra: 1616; Kāvya: 91.

OCLC:

920583614