{ "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>

Corrections in yellow paste as well as marginal additions.<\/div>
Many marginal annotations marked by kākapada<\/i> and line number. The words of the stanzas are sometimes divided by a word dividers. Moreover, sometimes numerals are written above the words of the stanzas in order to explain the syntax (anvaya<\/i>).<\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Subject(s)", "value": "Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Kāvya" }, { "label": "Associated Name(s)", "value": "Śrīdānavimala; Bendall, Cecil; Kevaldas, Bhagvan Das" }, { "label": "Format", "value": "Pothī" }, { "label": "Data Source(s)", "value": "LVP Add.2266, direct inspection." }, { "label": "Language(s)", "value": "Sanskrit." }, { "label": "Author(s)", "value": "Kālidāsa; Kālidāsa" }, { "label": "Alternative Title(s)", "value": "Kumārasambhavamahākāvya" }, { "label": "Scribe(s)", "value": "Lāvaṇyavimala; Lāvaṇyavimala" }, { "label": "Binding", "value": "

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": "

Jaina Devanāgarī in black ink.

Scribe:<\/b>Lāvaṇyavimala. <\/p><\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Excerpts", "value": "

Rubric:<\/b> [1v1]<\/a> || ℔ || śriśāradayai namaḥ ||<\/div>
Incipit:<\/b> [1v1]<\/a> asty, uttarasyāṃ, diśi, devatātmā, | himālāyo, nāma, nagādhirājaḥ, | pūrvāparau, toyanidhī, vagāhya, | sthitaḥ, [1v2] pṛthivyā, iva, mānadaṃḍaḥ, || 1 || yaṃ, \\<\/i>yaṃ himālayaṃ<\/i>/<\/i> sarvaśailāḥ, parikalpya, vatsaṃ, | merau, [<\/i>.<\/i>]<\/i>ite, dogdhari, dohedakṣe, | bhāsvaṃti, \\<\/i>kathaṃbhūtā auṣadhīḥ kathaṃbhūtāni ratnāni ca | bhāsvaṃti | bhāso vidyaṃte yāsu tāḥ bhāsvatyaḥ | bhāso vidyaṃte yeṣu tāni bhāsvaṃti bhāsvatyaś ca bhāsvaṃti ceti ādeś ca dvaṃdve ityādi pada[2]sya lopaḥ | <\/i>/<\/i> ratnāni, mahauṣadhī,ś ca, | pṛthūpa\\<\/i>ṣṭāṃ,<\/i>/<\/i> dudu[1v3]hur, dharitrīṃ, || 2 || anaṃtaratnaprabhavasya, \\<\/i>himālayasya<\/i>/<\/i> yasya, | himaṃ, na, saubhāgyavilo[<\/i>p<\/i>]<\/i>i, jñātaṃ, | eko, hi, doṣo, guṇasannipāto, nimajjatīṃdoḥ, kiraṇeṣv i,vāṅkaḥ, [1v4] || 3 || <\/div>
Explicit:<\/b> [19r13]<\/a> atha, vi[19r14]budhagaṇām,s tā,n iṃdumaul,ir visṛjya, | kṣitidharpatikan[<\/i>yā<\/i>]<\/i>m, ādadānaḥ, kareṇa, | kanakakalaśarakṣābhaktiśobhāsanāthaṃ, | kṣi[19r15]tiviracitaśayyaṃ, kautukāgāram, \\<\/i>vāsagṛhe<\/i>/<\/i> āgāt_, || 94 || navapa[<\/i>-1-<\/i>]<\/i>ṇayalajjābhūṣaṇāṃ, tatra, gaurīṃ || vadanam, apaharaṃtīṃ, tatkṛto,tkṣepa|[19v1]m, īśaḥ, || api, śayanasakh〚<\/i>i<\/i>〛<\/i>\\<\/i>ī<\/i>/<\/i>bhyo, dattavācaṃ, kathaṃcit_, | prathama<\/i>(!)<\/i>mukhavikārai,r hāsayām āsa, gūḍhaṃ, || 95 || <\/div>
Final Rubric:<\/b> [19v1]<\/a> iti śrīkumārasaṃbhave mahākāvye [19v2] kaviśrīkālidāsakṛtau gaurīpariṇayano nāma saptamaḥ sargaḥ || <\/div>
Colophon:<\/b> [19v2]<\/a> paṃ[<\/i>ḍ<\/i>]<\/i>i\\<\/i>ta<\/i>/<\/i>śrī 5 śrīdānavimalatat_śiṣyamu°lāvaṇyavimalalivīkṛtaṃ<\/i>(!)<\/i> || saṃva[19v3]t_ 17°25 varṣe āsāḍhavadi ekādiśī karmavā[<\/i>dy<\/i>]<\/i>āṃ sthapavanāya livīkṛtam idaṃ pustakaṃ || ciraṃ jayatu pustikeyaṃ || śrīḥ || baṃ || śrī || <\/div>" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "Cambridge University Library" }, { "label": "Abstract", "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, CUDL PID Workflow" }, { "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>

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

Manuscripts<\/b><\/p>

NGMCP: 144 catalogued manuscripts<\/a>. <\/div>
Cambridge, Cambridge University Library: Add.2251.3<\/a>. <\/div>
NCC: vol. 4, p. 211-220.<\/div><\/div>

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

Kālidāsa, Kumara sambhava / Kalidasae carmen: Sanskrite et latine<\/i>, ed. Adolphus Fredericus Stenzler (Berlin: Oriental Translation Fund, 1838) vol. 1.<\/div>
Kālidāsa, Kumāra Sambhava<\/i>, ed. Tārānātha Tarkavāchaspati (Calcutta: Baboo Bhoovana Chandra Vasāka, 1868) vol. 1.<\/div>
Kālidāsa, Kumārasambhavam of Kālidāsa<\/i>, ed. M. A. Karandikar and Shailaja Karandikar (Bombay: Booksellers' Pub. Co., 1950) vol. 1.<\/div>
Kālidāsa, Kālidāsa's Kumārasambhavam [Cantons I-VII]<\/i>, ed. S. R. Sehgal (Jullundur: Navayug Publications, 1959) vol. 1.<\/div><\/div>

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

Sarkar, Ranajit, In Search of Kālidāsa's Thought-World: A Study of Kumārasambhava<\/i> (Lucknow: Akhila Bharatiya Sanskrit Parishad, 1985).<\/div>
Heifetz, Hank, The Origin of the Young God: Kālidāsa's Kumārasaṃbhava<\/i> (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985).<\/div><\/div>
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