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Cardboard cover, original binding.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Condition", "value": "Complete, in good condition; eaten by mice on the top right margin." }, { "label": "Script", "value": "

Jaina Devanāgarī in black ink.<\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Provenance", "value": "Bought in Jaipur by Colonel Augustus C. Honner in 1860-70." }, { "label": "Excerpts", "value": "
Rubric:<\/b> [1v1]<\/a> śrī gaṇeśāya namaḥ || <\/div>
Incipit:<\/b> [1v1]<\/a> asty uttarasyāṃ diśi devatātmā himālayo nāma nagādhirājaḥ || pūrvāparau toyani[1v2]dhī vigāhya sthitaḥ pṛthivyā iva mānadaṃḍaḥ || 1 || yaṃ sarvaśailāḥ parikalpya vatsaṃ merau sthite dogdhari dohada[1v3]kṣe || bhāsvaṃti ratnāni mahauṣadhīś ca pṛthūpadiṣṭāṃ duduhur dharitrīṃ || 2 || <\/div>
Explicit:<\/b> [30v2]<\/a> navapariṇayalajjābhūṣaṇāṃ tatra gaurīṃ vadanam 〚<\/i>u<\/i>〛<\/i>apaharaṃtīṃ tatkṛtotkṣepam īśaḥ || api śayana¦[30v3]sakhībhyo dattavācaṃ kathaṃcit prathamamukhavikārair hāsayām āsa gūḍhaṃ || 96 || <\/div>
Final Rubric:<\/b> [30v3]<\/a> iti śrīkumā[30v4]rasaṃbhave mahākāvye kavikālidāsakṛtau gaurīvivaho nāma saptamasarggaḥ || ℔ ||   || <\/div>" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "Parker Library: on long-term deposit at Cambridge University Library" }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "30 ff." }, { "label": "Funding", "value": "AHRC" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "

A modern Jaina manuscript of Kālidāsa's Kumārasambhava<\/i> containing the first seven sarga<\/i>s. The eighth sarga, a vivid description of the 25-year long lovemaking between Śiva and Pārvatī, was sometimes omitted by medieval scribes due to its erotic content (for instance also in Add.2266<\/a>, another modern paper manuscript).<\/p>" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "19th century" }, { "label": "Title", "value": "Kumārasambhava" }, { "label": "Author(s) of the Record", "value": "Camillo Formigatti and Daniele Cuneo, CUDL PID Workflow" }, { "label": "Material", "value": "Paper.

Folio height: 11.8 cm, width: 25.3 cm. <\/p>" }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "MS Corpus Christi 33.B.14" }, { "label": "Additions", "value": "

Marginalia<\/b><\/p>

Running marginal title (kumārasaṃ°<\/i>), top left margin, verso.<\/div>
Running marginal invocation (śrīḥ<\/i>), bottom right margin, verso.<\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Subject(s)", "value": "Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Kāvya" }, { "label": "Associated Name(s)", "value": "Honner, Augustus Cotgrave" }, { "label": "Format", "value": "Pothī" }, { "label": "Data Source(s)", "value": "Niemann (1983: 5), direct inspection." }, { "label": "Language(s)", "value": "Sanskrit." }, { "label": "Layout", "value": "Written area height: 7.5 cm, width: 20 cm.

11 lines per page, approximately 35 akṣara<\/i>s per line.<\/p> Akṣara height: 3 mm. Interlinear space height: 3 mm.

Double marginal frame lines and double lines on the folio edges in red ink; verse numbers highlighted with red powder.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Foliation", "value": "

1. Original: Jaina Devanāgarī numerals, top left margin, verso (under running marginal title).<\/p>

2. Original: Jaina Devanāgarī numerals, bottom right margin, verso (under running marginal invocation).<\/p>" }, { "label": "Bibliography", "value": "

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

Niemann, Grahame, Uncatalogued Indian Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge: the Honner Collection<\/i> Xerographic copy. (Cambridge: University Library, 1983).<\/div><\/div>

Manuscripts<\/b><\/p>

Cambridge, Cambridge University Library: Add.2251.3<\/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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