Cāṇakyaśloka 1874

Contributor:

Śambhunātha Dvija (scribe)

Name:

Kauṭalya

Date:

1874

Description:

Collection of sayings or maxims for moral and spiritual guidance in daily life.

Language:

Sanskrit

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Maxims; Facsimiles; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (9 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 as Cāṇakya in colophon.; Written in 4 lines per folio.; 9 leaves foliated 3-11, middle right verso; there is one extra shot of folio 11 verso to show an attached note that could not be removed; there is a second extra photograph of the newspaper wrapping and its notes.; Title from colophon (f. 11v).; Dated in code as śāke vedāṃka śailendu, which likely means: veda (4), aṃka (9), śaila (7) and indu (1) in the year of śāka 1794 (1874) (f. 11v).; Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; paper treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect from insects.; Dimensions of original manuscript: 6 x 29 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: 1876; Vi: 8.; In Sanskrit (Bengali)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Rāmamālā Library 2267