Subhāṣitasuradruma. Skandha 2, 1820; सुभाषितसुरद्रुम.स्कन्ध २,१८२०

Name:

Basavaraja, King of Keladi, approximately 1684-approximately 1745

Date:

1820

Description:

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).

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Hindu mythology; Maxims, Sanskrit

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

tables of contents; poems; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 item (224 leaves) : paper; 13 x 31 cm

Rights:

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

Notes:

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.; Colophon: iti subhāṣitasuradrume dvitIyaskaṃdhasamāptaḥ // (f. 220r).; Dated śaka 1742 (1820) (f. 220r).; Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1526

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts