Details

Standardized Title:

Kumārasambhava. Selections

Subjects:

Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Kārttikeya (Hindu deity).
Hindu mythology.
Hindu mythology -- Early works to 1800.
Kārttikeya (Hindu deity) -- Early works to 1800.
Parvati (Hindu deity) -- Early works to 1800.
Parvati (Hindu deity).
Siva (Hindu deity) -- Early works to 1800.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Commentaries.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is part of Kālidāsa's well known poem, from the middle of the third chapter to the end of the seventh chapter, about the birth of the Hindu deity Skanda-Kārttikeya, dealing with the mythology of the relationship between the deities Pārvatī (Gaurī) and Śiva, their courtship and marriage. A commentary by Mallinātha runs parallel above and below the root text. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 26r); title of commentary Sañjīvanī from commentary colophon (f. 26v).
Written in 9-12 lines per leaf.
92 leaves foliated 61-126, 1-26, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīśrīkumārasaṃbhave mahākāvye kaviśrīkālikdāsakṛtau gaurīpariṇayano nāmasaptaḥ sargaḥ 7 (f. 26r).
Dated saṃvat 1856 (1799) (f. 26v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red through the first half of the manuscript.

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 1938 (UP 1573).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1573.

Contains:

Mallinātha. Sañjīvanī (Kumārasambhava). Selections.

OCLC:

927151210