Kirātārjunīya, circa 1700-1850; किरातार्जुनीय,१७००-१८५०

Name:

Bhāravi

Date:

1700

Description:

Manuscript is an adaptation of a well known Hindu story originally derived from the Mahābhārata about an encounter between the epic hero Arjuna and the deity Śiva in his form as the Hunter or Mountain Man called Kirāta. Manuscript contains only the first and second of a total 18 sections (sarga) of the poem.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Poems; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 item (13 leaves) : paper; 11 x 22 cm

Rights:

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

Notes:

6th-century Sanskrit poet.; Title from colophon (Part 2, f. 7v).; Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.; 13 leaves foliated (Part 1:) 3-8; (Part 2:) 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: itī śrī kurātārjunīye mahākāvye lakṣmyaṃke bhāravikṛtau vyāsāgamano nāmadvitīyaḥ sargaḥ (Part 2, f. 7v).; Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; numbers highlighted in red throughout; vertical.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

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

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts