Collection of sayings, circa 1700-1850.
- Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- Format/Description:
- Manuscript
1 item (8 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 16 cm - Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1534
- Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3v362 - Status/Location:
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- Subjects:
- Hindu mythology.
Maxims, Sanskrit. - Form/Genre:
- Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts. - Language:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Collection of moral, religious, and life-affirming sayings from various Sanskrit sources (stories and poems), likely the Hitopadeśa, Kālidasa's Raghuvaṃśa, and others.
- Notes:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
Written in 8 lines per leaf.
8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
Incipit: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ // kvacid[???]auśayyā kvacidapicaparyaṃ kaśayanaṃ // (f. 1r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; some folios treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect manuscript from insects. - 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 1960 (UP 1534).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1534.
- Contributor:
- Kālidāsa.
- OCLC:
- 921893430