Details

Subjects:

Sanskrit poetry.
Sanskrit language -- Rhetoric.
Aesthetics, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

A treatise or manual on Sanskrit rhetoric (alaṃkāraśāstra) and poetics.

Notes:

Scribe is Prabhākaraśīghra the son of Sadāśiva (f. 8r). This may be the same Sadāśiva who is the scribe of many other manuscripts at Penn Libraries, as well as a teacher of other scribes. Examples of his work include Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1279, Item 1280, and Item 1281.
Written in 15-17 lines per leaf.
8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
Dated śaka 1798 (1876) f. 8r).
Mistakes blacked out; additions and corrections 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 2405 (UP 1533).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1533.

Contributor:

Prabhākaraśīghra (Son of Sadāśiva), scribe.

OCLC:

927415445