Sauptikaparvan circa 1750-1899
- Description
- Section of the Mahābhārata, book 10, dealing with the aftermath of the great war, wherein the Brahman turned warrior Aśvatthāman decides to attack the Paṇḍava camp and has an encounter with the Hindu deity Śiva from whom he receives great power.
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- poems
- facsimiles (reproductions)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit
- Date
- 1750
- Language
- Sanskrit
- Subject
- Aśvatthāman (Hindu mythology)
- Śiva (Hindu deity)
- Siva (Hindu deity)
- Extent
- 1 online resource (5 leaves) : illustrations
- Notes
- Written in 12-13 lines per folio.
- 5 leaves foliated [i], 1-4, middle right verso.
- Title from colophon (f. 4v).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
- Dimensions of original manuscript: 17 x 49 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.
- Wrapped with white cotton attached with notes.
- In Sanskrit (Bengali)
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Rāmamālā Library 539
- 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.
- Resource Type
- Text
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