Poetic and mythological sayings and maxims compiled as a repository of ethical and political guidance and instructions for making good decisions through poetry and Hindu mythology. Manuscript is comprised of the second and largest of four sections (skandha) that make up this work. There is a table of contents at the beginning of the manuscript (f. i-iv).
Creator:
Basavaraja, King of Keladi, approximately 1684-approximately 1745.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.; Colophon: iti subhāṣitasuradrume dvitIyaskaṃdhasamāptaḥ // (f. 220r).; Title from colophon (f. 220r).; Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.; 224 leaves foliated [i-iv], 1-220, upper left and lower right verso.; Dated śaka 1742 (1820) (f. 220r).; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
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