Damayantīkathā, circa 1700-1850.
दमयन्तीकथा

Format:

• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Trivikramabhaṭṭa, active 10th century.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Damayantī (Hindu mythological character).
• Hindu mythology.

Genre:

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

Physical Description:

1 item (53 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 26 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1504

Place of Publication:

• circa 1700-1850.
• १७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

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