कर्णकथा'

This notebook contains transcript of a recording. Chhagandas Kamar sings 'Karnakatha' - An episode from Mahabharata. This notebook presumably belongs to the series of notebooks containing transcripts of recordings of 'Daval' sung by the same artist. Daval is a storytelling genre which borrows characters from the Mahabharata epic but creates further narratives following from the culmination of the canonical storyline. This recording took place on 18th February 1985. (Part5). Custodial history: Collection of Komal Kothari, housed at Rupayan Sansthan. Extent and format of original material: 1 notebook of 13 pages. Physical characteristics: A hardbound notebook with text written in blue ink. Pages and the notebook are in bad condition. Many of the pages seem to be missing and the first page is detached from the binding. On all but one pages, text has been stroked out with pink ink and the last few pages contain undecipherable scribblings from the same ink. Pages have started showing discolouration. Owner(s) of original material: Rupayan Sansthan.