Nītiśataka, 1753. = नीतिशतक, १७५३.
- Publication:
- 1753.
१७५३. - Format/Description:
- Manuscript
1 item (34 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 26 cm - Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1502
- Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3k835 - Status/Location:
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- Subjects:
- Women -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Wisdom -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Wisdom -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800.
Women -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800. - Form/Genre:
- Commentaries.
Poems.
Drawings (visual works)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts. - Language:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Second part of Bhartr̥hari's poetic treatise called the Śataka (The Hundred), in which each section contains slightly over 100 maxims on different topics. Nītiśataka addresses worldly wisdom (nīti) and follows a section on the dangers of love and the allure of the female body and women in general. Wisdom is up held as a higher path for enlightened men in their search for liberation from the world. Manuscript contains an unidentified commentary following each verse. Manuscript lacks a beginning.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 40r).
Written in 7-10 lines per leaf.
34 leaves foliated 7-40, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrībhartṛharinā viracitaṃ ṭīkāyānītiśatakaṃ samāptaṃ // idaṃ pustakaṃ sadāśivabhaṭṭatmajaprabhākarabhaṭṭena likhitaṃ // śake 1675 // ānaṃdavane jyeṣṭhamāseśu - 5 // samāptaṃ // śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ // (f. 40r).
Dated śaka 1675 (1753) (f. 40r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some numbers highlighted in red; floral design on the final folio (f. 40r).
Scribe is Prabhākara Bhaṭṭa, son of Sadāśiva Bhaṭṭa (f. 40r). - 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 2168 (UP 1502).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1502.
- Contributor:
- Prabhākara Bhaṭṭa (Son of Sadāśiva Bhaṭṭa), scribe.
- OCLC:
- 913791641