Hitopadeśa circa 1750-1899

Contributor:

Rāmaratna Śarmman (scribe)

Name:

Viṣṇuśarman

Date:

1750

Description:

Collection of animal stories written for children, primarily princes, to impart lessons of good rulership; there are two additional partial texts at the end of the manuscript (f. i-vi) which were part of the family library that this manuscript was orginally part of.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Hindu mythology; Children's literature -- Stories, plots, etc; Children's literature

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Stories, plots, etc; Poems; Facsimiles; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts; Plot summaries

Physical Description:

1 online resource (86 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 2-7 lines per folio.; 86 leaves foliated 1-32, 32-42, 42-46, 48-79, [i-vi], middle right verso.; Title from incipit (f. 1v).; Mistakes covered over in white or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some folios treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect the manuscript from insects.; Dimensions of original manuscript: 10 x 42 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: 126 na; Vi: 49; Kra: 150.; Scribe is Rāmaratna Śarmman (f. 79r).; In Sanskrit (Bengali)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Rāmamālā Library 1995