Details

Standardized Title:

Naiṣadhīyacarita. Selections

Subjects:

Hindu mythology.
Nala (Hindu mythological character).
Damayantī (Hindu mythological character).
Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Watermarks.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is the third section (sarga) of this Hindu epic love story about Nala, king of the Niṣadas, and his wife Damayantī, how they came to be married and their subsequent exploits.

Notes:

Title from title abbreviations in margins throughout.
Written in 17-18 lines per leaf.
18 leaves foliated 1-18, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line.
Watermarks of a coat of arms and another of a name or company name with the letters L and E in the middle.

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 2094 (UP 1556).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1556.

OCLC:

927117146