Nalodaya. Ullāsas 1-2, circa 1700-1850; नलोदय.उल्लास १-२,१७००-१८५०

Contributor:

Kālidāsa (attributed name)

Date:

1700

Description:

Poem titled The rise of Nala, dealing with Sanskrit poetics and the life of the king Nala, a character from the Mahābhārata. Attributed to the poet Kālidāsa. An unidentified commentary appears in the margins on some folios in a very small scribal hand.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Hindu mythology; Nala (Hindu mythological character)

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Poems; Commentaries; Watermarks; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts

Physical Description:

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

Rights:

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

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 11r).; Written in 7-14 lines per leaf.; Colophon: iti śrīkālidāsakṛtau nalodaye dvitīya ullāsaḥ // (f. 11r).; 11 leaves foliated 1-11, upper left verso.; Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant phrases, verse divisions and numbers highlighted in red throughout; some vertical margins marked with double and quadruple red line.; Watermarks of the letters G and A and part of a coat of arms.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

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

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts