Sāhityadarpaṇa, 1674
साहित्यदर्पण, १६७४
- Description
- Manuscript is used for study and contemplation and is a treatise on the aesthetics of poetry dealing with the nature of poetry, rasa (flavor), ornamentation, and a variety of other topics; title translates as Mirror of composition. Manuscript is missing some folios.
- Creator
- Viśvanātha Kavirāja
- Josā Puṣkar (scribe)
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- treatises
- prayers (compositions)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit
- poems
- Date
- 1674
- Language
- Sanskrit
- Subject
- Rasas
- Aesthetics
- Sanskrit poetry
- Aesthetics -- Poetry
- Rasas -- Poetry
- Collection
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts
- Extent
- 1 item (147 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 26 cm
- Notes
- Title from colophon (f. 154v).
- Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
- 147 leaves foliated 1-18, 26-35,35-59, 61-154, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: ity ālaṃkārikavakravarttidhvaniprasthānaparamācāryāśeṣabhāṣāvilāsinībhujaṃgasāhityārṇavakarṇaddhāramahāpātraśrīviśvanāthakavirājakṛte sāhityadarpaṇe daśamaḥ paricchedaḥ // s[ā]hityadarpaṇo 'yaṃ samāptimāgat // saṃvat 1731 varṣeje[ṣṭha] 1 ravire dīne pustakaṃ l[i]khyataṃ josā puṣkar // (f. 154v).
- Dated saṃvat 1731 (1674) (f. 154v).
- Scribe is Josā Puṣkar (f. 154v).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with triple black or red line.
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 521
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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