Vidyasūndarakāvya circa 1750-1899

Name:

Bhāratacandra Rāẏa, 1712-1760

Date:

1750

Description:

Dialogue in poetic verse between the figures Vidyā, a princess and Sundara a prince.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Hindu mythology; Love poetry, Indic

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Poems; Dialogues; Facsimiles; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 online resource (10 leaves) : illustrations

Rights:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Rights Note:

Reproduced from the original with permission of the Mahesh Charitable Trust under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.

Notes:

Written in 4 lines per folio.; 10 leaves foliated 1-10, middle right verso; there is one photo of the newspaper wrapping.; Title from title page (f. 1v).; Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; paper treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect from insects.; Dimensions of original manuscript: 9 x 44 cm.; Reproduced from the original with permission of the Mahesh Charitable Trust under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.; Notes and numbers written in a modern Bengali hand: Kra: 4875; Kāvya: 306 .; In Sanskrit (Bengali)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Rāmamālā Library 1826