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See Add.2251.1<\/a>.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Condition", "value": "Incomplete; damaged on the lower right edge with loss of text, and less seriously on the upper edge." }, { "label": "Script", "value": "

Early Bengali in black ink.<\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "Eastern India." }, { "label": "Provenance", "value": "Bought in Nepal by Prof. C. Bendall in 1884-5." }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "Cambridge University Library" }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "1 f." }, { "label": "Funding", "value": "AHRC" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "

This single leaf contains the first 15 verses of sarga<\/i> 5 of Kālidāsa's Kumārasambhava<\/i>. It breaks off in the middle of verse 15. It is found in the same bundle as Add.2251.1<\/a> and 2251.2<\/a> (Jayamaṅgalā<\/i>), to which it is not related in any way, although it appears to be equally old. Both the kind of palm leaf and the script are in fact entirely different. It is not known when this leaf was added to the bundle nor by whom. <\/p>" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "12th-13th century CE." }, { "label": "Title", "value": "Kumārasambhava" }, { "label": "Author(s) of the Record", "value": "Vincenzo Vergiani., CUDL PID Workflow" }, { "label": "Material", "value": "Palm leaf.

Folio height: 3.8 cm, width: 29.5 cm. <\/p>" }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "MS Add.2251.3" }, { "label": "Donor(s)", "value": "Bendall, Cecil" }, { "label": "Subject(s)", "value": "Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Kāvya" }, { "label": "Format", "value": "Tālapatra" }, { "label": "Data Source(s)", "value": "LVP Add.2251.3, direct inspection." }, { "label": "Language(s)", "value": "Sanskrit." }, { "label": "Layout", "value": "Written height: 2.2 cm, width: 25.3 cm.

6 lines per page, approximately 60 akṣara<\/i>s per line.<\/p>One string hole, approximately in the middle of a 2 cm by 2 cm blank space framed by text on all four sides." }, { "label": "Foliation", "value": "

1. Original: Early Bengali numeral 89 (not entirely clear), mid-right margin, verso.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Bibliography", "value": "

Descriptions of the manuscript<\/b><\/p>

LVP = de La Vallée Poussin, Louis and Caroline Mary Ridding, U[niversity.L[ibrary].C[ambridge]. Catalogue of Sanskrit MSS [unpublished card catalogue]<\/i> (Cambridge: 1916).<\/div><\/div>

Manuscripts<\/b><\/p>

Cambridge, Cambridge University Library: Corpus Christi 33.B.14<\/a>, Add.2266<\/a>, Add.2296<\/a>, Or.146.2<\/a>, Or.338<\/a>, Or.728.6<\/a>, Or.2263<\/a>. <\/div><\/div>

Edition(s)<\/b><\/p>

Stenzler, Adolf Friedrich (ed.), Kumárasambhava = Kálidásæ carmen: Sanskrite et Latine<\/i> (Berlin: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1838).<\/div>
Śarmā, Madanamohana (ed.), Kumārasambhavaṃ mahākavikālidāsakr̥taṃ śrīmallināthasūriviracitayā sañjīvanīsamākhyayā vyākhyayānugataṃ śrīmadanamohanaśarmmatarkālaṅkāraṇasaṃskr̥tam<\/i> (Kalikātāyām: Saṃskr̥tayantre mudritam, 1907).<\/div>
Gaṇapatiśāstrī, T. (ed.), Kumārasambhavaḥ mahākaviśrīkālidāsapraṇītaḥ śrīmadaruṇagirināthaviracitayā kumārasambhavaprakāśikayā nārāyaṇapaṇḍitaviracitena kumārasambhavavivaraṇena ca sametaḥ<\/i>, Anantaśayanasaṃskr̥tagranthāvaliḥ no. 27, 32, 36 (Trivandrum: Travancore Govt. Press, 1913).<\/div>
Suryakanta (ed.), The Kumārasambhava of Kālidāsa<\/i> (New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1962).<\/div>
Narayana Murti, M.S, Vallabhadeva's Kommentar (Śāradā-Version) zum Kumārasambhava des Kālidāsa<\/i>, Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland; Supplementband 20, 1 (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1980).<\/div>
Kāle, M. R., Kālidāsa's Kumārasaṃbhava, cantos I-VIII, complete, edited with the commentary of Mallinātha, a literal English translation, notes and introduction<\/i> 7th (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1981).<\/div><\/div>

Secondary Literature<\/b><\/p>

Griffith, Ralph T. H, The birth of the war-god. A poem translated from the Sanskrit into English verse<\/i> (London: 1853).<\/div>
Heifetz, Hank, The origin of the young god: Kālidāsa's Kumārasambhava<\/i> (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985).<\/div>
Smith, David, The birth of Kumara by Kalidasa<\/i>, Clay Sanskrit library (New York: New York University Press, 2005).<\/div>
Syed, Renate, Kālidāsas Kumārasaṃbhava, aus dem Sanskrit übertragen und unter Berücksichtigung des Kommentares von Mallinātha mit erläuternden Anmerkungen versehen von Renate Syed<\/i>, Studien zur Indologie und Iranistik. Monographie 14 (Reinbek: Verlag für Orientalistische Fachpublikationen, 1993).<\/div>
Walter, Otto, Der Kumārasambhava, oder, die Geburt des Kriegsgottes: ein Kunstgedicht des Kālidāsa<\/i> (München-Leipzig: Hans Sachs-Verlag, 1913).<\/div><\/div>
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