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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