Details

Subjects:

Sex.
India.
Sex -- India.
Sex -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Marriage -- India.
Marriage.
Love -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

15th- or 16th-century Sanskrit author.

Summary:

Manuscript used as a kind of manual, guide, and treatise on love and sex, predominantly from the male perspective, analyzing and categorizing different types of men and women, according to physical characteristics, mental disposition, and sexual appetite. There is also discussion of the sexual compatibility between different types of men and women, as well as compatibility in marriage.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 42r).
Written in 8 lines per leaf.
42 leaves foliated 1-42, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: ity anaṃgaraṃgasamāptaḥ // (f. ).
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 2134 (UP 522).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 522

OCLC:

847766391