Kirātārjunīya. Sarga 1, circa 1700-1850; किरातार्जुनीय.सर्ग १,१७००-१८५०

Contributor:

Sadāsadāśiva (Son of Vināyaka) (scribe)

Name:

Bhāravi

Date:

1700

Description:

Beginning of a Sanskrit poem that is both a narrative development and reinterpretation of a Hindu mythic story from the Mahābhārata about an encounter between the god Śiva and the epic hero Arjuna in which Śiva appears as a wild mountain man (Kirāta). Manuscript contains the first chapter (sarga) of the larger work of eighteen chapters.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Hindu mythology; Siva (Hindu deity); Arjuna (Hindu mythological character)

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Poems; Watermarks; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 item (8 leaves) : paper; 11 x 21 cm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).; Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.; 8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.; Scribe is Sadāsadāśiva, son of Vināyaka (f. 8r).; Watermarks of letters G and A and part of a coat of arms.; Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant phrases highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double red line.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts