Raghuvaṃśa. Sarga 2, circa 1700-1850; रघुवंश.सर्ग २,१७००-१८५०

Name:

Kālidāsa

Date:

1700

Description:

Manuscript is employed for contemplation and study and is a section of a poetic work that deals with the exploits of the Raghu dynasty, important for mythic background to and retelling of elements of the Hindu epic, the Rāmāyaṇa. Lacks an ending.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Vālmīki. Rāmāyaṇa; Hindu mythology; Rāma (Hindu deity)

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Poems; Drawings (visual works); Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 item (7 leaves) : paper; 10 x 21 cm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).; Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.; 7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left verso.; Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant characters, phrases and numbers highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double black line; pencil and ink doodles of birds and floral designs on various folios.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2702

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts