Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a work on Sanskrit prosody or versification., describing different kinds of poetic meter while using the meter itself to write the description. The title written in the colophon, Chandograntha or Verse book, is typically the subtitle of the more well known title Śrutabodha, which is written into the marginal abbreviations. Small chart of numbers and characters written on the front page (f. 1r).
Work attributed in manuscript to Kālidāsa (f. 4r), but may have been written by Vararuci.; Title from colophon (f. 4r); alternate title Śrutabodha from marginal abbreviations.; Written in 10 lines per leaf.; 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: iti śrīkavikālidāsakṛtaśchaṃdograṃthaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 4r).; Dated saṃvat 1833 (1776) (f. 4r).; Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 800
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