Details

Subjects:

Krishna (Hindu deity).
Sacrifice -- Hinduism.
Hindu mythology.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Commentaries.
Watermarks.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript contains a version of the ancient Hindu legend wherein a demon is born into the world as a king named Śiśupāla who wants to deny Kṛṣṇa participation in a royal sacrifice. He challenges Kṛṣna to a fight, whereupon he is slain; manuscript also contains an unidentified commentary running parallel above and below the root text.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 10r).
Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
Watermarks of a fleur-de-lis and part of a name.

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 2064 (UP 1560).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1560.

OCLC:

927415584