Details

Subjects:

Monastic and religious life (Jainism).
Buddhist monks.
Jainism.
Jainism -- Drama -- Early works to 1800.
Buddhist monks -- Drama -- Early works to 1800.
Monastic and religious life (Jainism) -- Drama -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Drama.
Plays (performing arts compositions)
Satires (document genre)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Sanskrit religious drama and satire, exploring inter-religious themes and interactions between religious figures, especially Buddhist and Jain monks with an undertone of humor possibly as a kind of social critique.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 11r).
Written in 14-16 lines per leaf.
11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: samāptam idaṃ laṭakamelśubhaṃ astu // saṃvat 1741 mārgaśīrṣaśuddhaṃ campāṃ likhitam idaṃ parvaṇīkaravīreśvareṇāṃ bāvatyam // svārthaṃ parārthaṃ ca śrīrāmacaṃrārpaṇam astu // (f. 11r).
Dated saṃvat 1741 (1684) (f. 11r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant words and phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black lines.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by ParvaṇIkara Govindabhaṭṭaputra.

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 2292 (UP 1567).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1567.

Contributor:

ParvaṇIkara Govindabhaṭṭaputra, former owner.

OCLC:

927415588