Details

Subjects:

Damayantī (Hindu mythological character).
Hindu mythology.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Drawings (visual works)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Poem telling the story of Damayantī, a princess in Hindu mythology who is an archetype of feminine beauty.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 53r).
Written in 17 lines per leaf.
53 leaves foliated 1-53, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti trivikramamabhaṭṭaviracitāyāṃ vibudhajanamanohāriṇyāṃ damayaṃtīkathāyāṃ saptama ullvāsaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 53r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line; there is a central design on each folio involving four characters.

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 2009 (UP 1504).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1504.

OCLC:

926062517