Kirātārjunīya, 1755; किरातार्जुनीय,१७५५

Contributor:

Beḍekara Govindabhaṭṭa (scribe)

Name:

Bhāravi

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1755

Description:

Bharavi's 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 is incomplete missing the first three and ninth of eighteen chapters (sargas).

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Hindu mythology; Śiva (Hindu deity) Early works to 1800; Siva (Hindu deity); Arjuna (Hindu mythological character) Early works to 1800; Arjuna (Hindu mythological character); Hindu mythology -- Early works to 1800

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Poems; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 item (76 leaves) : paper; 11 x 22 cm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 82r).; Written in 6-10 lines per leaf.; 76 leaves foliated 12-44, 40-82, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: iti śrīkirātārjunIye mahākāvye lakṣṃyaṃ ke bhāravikṛtau dhanaṃ jayasya astra lābho nāmāṣṭādaśaḥ sargaḥ // śrīgajānanārpaṇam astu // (f. 82r).; Dated śaka 1677 (1755) (f. 82r).; Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; some vertical margins marked with double red line. Manuscript was written by two different scribes.; Second scribe is Beḍekara Govindabhaṭṭa (f. 40r-82r; name on f. 82r).; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1540

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts