Details

Subjects:

Krishna (Hindu deity).
Hindu mythology.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Author's name written as Lolaṃbarāja in manuscript (f. 1r).

Summary:

Manuscript is the first three sections (sarga) up to verse 69 of this eleventh century work, which draws on the mythology of a youthful Kṛṣṇa, first explored in the Harivaṃśa, and emphasizing the divine status of this well known Hindu deity.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
16 leaves foliated 1-16, upper left and lower right verso.
Title page: lolaṃbarājaviracita[bālakriḍā]rāsakriḍākratuvaṛaṇana (f. 1r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

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 2072 (UP 1530).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1530.

OCLC:

921940204