Damayantīkathā, circa 1700-1850
दमयन्तीकथा, १७००-१८५०
- Description
- Poem telling the story of Damayantī, a princess in Hindu mythology who is an archetype of feminine beauty.
- Creator
- Trivikramabhaṭṭa, active 10th century
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- poems
- drawings (visual works)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit
- Date
- 1700
- Language
- Sanskrit
- Subject
- Damayantī (Hindu mythological character)
- Hindu mythology
- Collection
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts
- Extent
- 1 item (53 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 26 cm
- Notes
- Title from colophon (f. 53r).
- Written in 17 lines per leaf.
- 53 leaves foliated 1-53, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti trivikramamabhaṭṭaviracitāyāṃ vibudhajanamanohāriṇyāṃ damayaṃtīkathāyāṃ saptama ullvāsaḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 53r).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line; there is a central design on each folio involving four characters.
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1504
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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