University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Coll 390, Item 508

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS7706

Shelfmark:

Ms. Coll 390, Item 508

Title:

Meghadūta

Author:

Kālidāsa

Kalidasa WIKIDATA

Date:

circa 1650-1800.

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Sanskrit

Sanskrit WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 paper ; 9 x 24 cm

Note:

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins, many in a different hand; verse numbers highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black line.
15 leaves foliated 1-15, upper left and lower right verso.
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
Title supplied by cataloger.

Keyword:

Manuscripts

Poetry

poems

Manuscripts, Sanskrit

Spirits

Kubera (Hindu deity)

Hindu mythology

Clouds

Folklore

Yakṣas (Hindu deities)

India

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9959622413503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3p843z5p/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania