University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Coll 390, Item 524

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS7722

Shelfmark:

Ms. Coll 390, Item 524

Title:

Śakuntalā

Author:

Kālidāsa

Kalidasa WIKIDATA

Date:

1768.

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Sanskrit and Prakrit

Sanskrit WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 paper ; 12 x 26 cm

Note:

Dated saṃvat 1825 (1768) (f. 37v).
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 quadruple black line.
Colophon: iti niṣkrā[n]tāḥ sarve saptamoṃkaḥ kṛtiriyaṃ kālidāsasya saṃvat 1825 aśvanavadi 14 [//] (f. 37v).
Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
37 leaves foliated 1-37, upper left and lower right verso.
Title from margin abbreviations throughout, upper left verso.

Keyword:

Manuscripts

poems

Manuscripts, Sanskrit

Love--Religious aspects--Hinduism

Orphans in literature

Hindu mythology

plays (literary genre)

Śakuntalā (Hindu mythology) in literature

Love poetry, Indic

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9959657703503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p31z67/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania