{ "viewingDirection": "left-to-right", "metadata": [ { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "Mumbai." }, { "label": "Provenance", "value": "Bought by Prof. C. Bendall from Bhagvan Das Kevaldas in Bombay, in 1885." }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "19 ff." }, { "label": "Funding", "value": "AHRC" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "1725 Vikrama / 1668 CE." }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "MS Add.2266" }, { "label": "Additions", "value": "
The folio 19v<\/a> bears the writing \"pothī 64 prati 88\" in Devanāgarī.<\/p><\/div><\/div> Marginalia<\/b><\/p> Paper sleeve, original binding. Paper envelope, library binding.<\/p> On the paper cover<\/a>, the following is written in Devanāgarī script: the title of the work (Kumārasaṃbhavakāvyam<\/i>), the number of folios (pa°<\/i> 19), the number of lines (ślo°<\/i> 700), and the date (saṃ°<\/i> 1725). Above the title, in pencil, the classmark (2266) has been written, as well as the line, \"with many glosses of notes\". Also in pencil is the number 15, above and to the left of the title.<\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Condition",
"value": "Complete, in good condition."
},
{
"label": "Script",
"value": " Scribe:<\/b>Lāvaṇyavimala. <\/p><\/div><\/div>"
},
{
"label": "Excerpts",
"value": " The Kumārasambhava<\/i> by Kālidāsa has been called \"the greatest long poem in classical Sanskrit, by the greatest poet of the language\" (Heifetz 1985: 1). Some manuscripts contain up to seventeen sarga<\/i>s, but only the first eight are commonly ascribed to be the work of Kālidāsa himself. This manuscript contains the first seven sarga<\/i>s of the text. The eighth sarga<\/i>, a vivid description of the 25-year long lovemaking between Śiva and Pārvatī, was sometimes omitted by medieval scribes due to its erotic content. Editions omitting the eighth sarga<\/i> have also been published, some of which are intended for use in schools (Heifetz 1985: 6). This manuscript, probably written in a Jain scriptorium, contains copious marginal annotations. The scribe, Lāvaṇyavimala, is named in the colophon, as well as his teacher, Śrīdānavimala. <\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Title",
"value": "Kumārasambhava"
},
{
"label": "Author(s) of the Record",
"value": "Charles Li, Daniele Cuneo, Camillo Formigatti"
},
{
"label": "Material",
"value": "Paper Folio height: ca. 26.5 cm, width: ca. 11.5 cm. <\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Layout",
"value": "Written area height: ca. 8.2 cm, width: ca. 19.5 cm. 15 lines per page, approximately 40 to 50 akṣara<\/i>s per line.<\/p> Akṣara height: 3 mm. Interlinear space height: 2 mm. One blank space of rhomboidal shape, decorated with some akṣaras from the text. Left and right margins framed in red and black lines. Double black lines on left and right folio edge.<\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Foliation",
"value": " 1. Original: Jaina Devanāgarī numerals, bottom right margin, verso.<\/p> 2. Original: Jaina Devanāgarī numerals, top left margin, verso (First two folios only).<\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Bibliography",
"value": " Descriptions of the manuscript<\/b><\/p> Manuscripts<\/b><\/p>