Vidagdhamukhamaṇḍaṇa. circa 1750-1899
- Description
- A Kind of Sanskrit poem (kāvya), in which the verses (ślokas) are not interrelated, and each one has two meanings, like a kind of poetic riddle. Verses explore themes from the Mahābhārata and other mythology..
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- poems
- facsimiles (reproductions)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit
- Date
- 1750
- Language
- Sanskrit
- Subject
- Puzzles -- Poetry
- Hindu mythology
- Puzzles
- Extent
- 1 online resource (8 leaves) : illustrations
- Notes
- Written in 2 lines per folio.
- 8 leaves foliated 2-9, middle right verso; there is one image of the cotton cover.
- Title from manuscript wrapper notes.
- Mistakes covered over 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: 8 x 35 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.
- In Sanskrit (Bengali)
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3qv3cj7c
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Rāmamālā Library 897
- 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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