Vastubhāsinī. Sarga 1, circa 1700-1850; वस्तुभासिनी.सर्ग १,१७००-१८५०

Alternate Title:

Kirāta

Name:

Gaṇeśa (Son of Padmanābha Mahārāṣṭra)

Date:

1700

Description:

First section of a retelling in verse of a scene 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).

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Poems; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 item (14 leaves) : paper; 10 x 21 cm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 16r); alternate title Kirāta from margins on verso of each folio.; Written in 12-14 lines per leaf.; Colophon: iti śrīmahārāṣṭropanāmakapadmanābhātma / jagaṇeśaviracitāyāṃ vastubhāsinyāṃ prathamoyaṃsargaḥ samāptaḥ paphāṇa // (f. 16r).; 14 leaves foliated 3-16, upper left verso.; Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant phrases, verse divisions and numbers highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

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

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts