Details

Subjects:

Hindu mythology.
Maxims, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Poetic and mythological sayings and maxims compiled as a repository of ethical and political guidance and instructions for making good decisions through poetry and Hindu mythology. Manuscript is comprised of the first and the beginning of the second part of the fourth section (skandha) of this work.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 8r).
Written in 8-10 lines per leaf.
8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti sūbhāṣitasūradrume caturthaskaṃdhe jagadvaicitryaciṃtānāmaprathamastavakaḥ // (f. 8r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions 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 2230 (UP 1525).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1525.

OCLC:

929986265