Details

Subjects:

Hindu mythology.
Maxims, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

Tables of contents.
Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Poetic and mythological sayings and maxims compiled as a repository of ethical and political guidance and instructions for making good decisions through poetry and Hindu mythology. Manuscript is comprised of the second and largest of four sections (skandha) that make up this work. There is a table of contents at the beginning of the manuscript (f. i-iv).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 220r).
Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
224 leaves foliated [i-iv], 1-220, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti subhāṣitasuradrume dvitIyaskaṃdhasamāptaḥ // (f. 220r).
Dated śaka 1742 (1820) (f. 220r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.

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 2231 (UP 1526).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1526.

OCLC:

921892406