Details

Subjects:

Family violence.
India.
Erotic literature, Indic.
Love poetry, Indic.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Parvati (Hindu deity).
Hindu gods.
Marriage -- India.
Marriage.
Family violence -- India.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript of is used for recitation and contemplation; title translates as, Seven hundred elegant verses. Deals with topics such as marriage, domestic abuse, love, sex, emotions, and other topics. Opens with a reference to the Hindu deity Śiva and his wife Pārvatī; and references to various Hindu gods and their mythological exploits are drawn on as a source of analogy throughout. Manuscript contains a collection of more than 600 verses in the ārya meter, as about 87 verses are missing (between verse numbers 120 and 208); there are two leaves are foliated 6, with some text repeated; this may be the result of scribal error or of combination of two distinct manuscripts of the same text.

Notes:

Title from abbreviation on title page (f. 1v).
Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
30 leaves foliated 1-6, 6-29, upper left and lower right verso.
Incipit: pāṇigrahe pulakitaṃ vapur aiśaṃ bhūtibhūṣitaṃ jayati // (f. 1v).
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 2146 (UP 501).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 501

OCLC:

847868108