Details

Subjects:

Hinduism -- Doctrines.
Sex -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Self-control -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Hindu ethics.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

5th-century philosopher and poet known especially for his work on theories of language.

Summary:

Manuscript is used for recitation and study and is a collection of poetic aphorisms by the well-known poet-philosopher Bhartṛhari. The text is divided into three parts, each consisting of a little more than one hundred (śataka) verses, each an aphorism on one of three themes. Part one is Nītiśataka or one hundred aphorisms on morality. Part 2 is Śṛṅgāraśataka or one hundred aphorisms on sexual desire. Part 3 is Vairāgyaśataka or one hundred aphorisms on detachment or aversion to passions. Manuscript lacks a beginning and starts on verse 15 of Part 1. The work may have been part of a larger collection of poetry or philosophy and/or part of a larger anthology of works by Bhartṛhari since the foliation count begins at folio 35 and could not account for the missing verses of Part 1.

Contents:

Nītiśataka
Śṛṅgāraśataka
Vairāgyaśataka.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger; title of Part 1, Nītiśataka, from internal colophon (f. 41v); title of Part 2 Śr̥ngāraśataka from internal colophon (f. 49r); tile of Part 3, Vairāgyaśataka, from final colophon (f. 58r).
Scribe is Taradatta (f. 58v).
Written in 10 lines per leaf.
24 leaves foliated 35-58, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti bhartṛharikṛtau vairāgyaśatakasamāptam // (f. 58r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with quadruple black line.

Cited in:

Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 2172 (UP 496).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 496

Contributor:

Taradatta, scribe.

Contains:

Śr̥ngāraśataka.
Nītiśataka.
Vairāgyaśataka.

OCLC:

844230264