Details

Subjects:

Weapons.
India.
Sex -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Love in literature.
Hindu women.
Weapons -- India.
Dharma.
Omens -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

14th- or 15th-century Sanskrit poet.

Summary:

Manuscript is for recitation and contemplation and is a collection (paddhati) of more than 500 poetic verses that cover a range of topics from love, anguish, women, sex, artha, karma, and dharma; additionally contains instructions for morality, gardening, omens, weapons, and other kinds of practical advice. Manuscript is incomplete and lacks an ending, but contains most of the text.

Notes:

Title from internal colophon (f. 33v); alternate title Śārṅgadharasubhāṣita supplied by cataloger.
Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
52 leaves foliated 1-2, 7-8, 23-70, lower right verso.
Internal colophon: iti śārṅ[ga]dharaviracitāyāṃ paddhatyāṃ viśiṣṭakavipraśaṃ sāparichedaḥ // (f. 33v).
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 double 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 2213 (UP 504).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 504

Contributor:

Śārṅgadharasubhāṣita.

OCLC:

847744243