University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Coll 390, Item 2637

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9430

Shelfmark:

Ms. Coll 390, Item 2637

Title:

Kāthakalpalatākaviśikṣāvṛtti

Author:

Amaracandrasūri, active 13th century

Amaracandrasūri WIKIDATA

Date:

circa 1700-1850.

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Sanskrit

Sanskrit WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 paper ; 9 x 22 cm

Note:

There is a square- or cross-shaped space in the middle of each folio, devoid of text, but in the center of each folio is a small hole, a reference to a style of binding used with palm leaf manuscripts. Some of the spaces have small drawings of a flower or circle in them.
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.
Title from internal colophon (f. 126v); alternate title Kāvyakalpalatākaviṣikṣāvṛtti supplied by cataloger.
Written in 10 lines per leaf.
127 leaves foliated 1-127, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrījinadannasuriśiṣyamahākaviśrī amaracaṃdraviracitāyāṃ kāthakalpalatākaviśikṣāvṛttau arṣasidvipratāne [???]samasyāstabakaḥ saptamaḥ // (f. 126v).

Keyword:

Manuscripts

treatises

Drawings (visual works)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit

Hindu poetry

Amaracandrasūri, active 13th century. Kavyakalpalatā

Poetics

Sanskrit language--Rhetoric

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9974218593503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3fn10s65/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania