Details

Subjects:

Hindu mythology.
Erotic literature, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Work of erotic literature in the genre of kāmasūtra (treatise on desire or sexual love). There is an apocryphal author attribution to the Advaitan philosopher Śaṅkarācārya in the colophon (f. 12v) which stems from a legend wherein the philosopher is said to have possessed the body of the original author Amaru, said to be a Kashmiri king, and experienced his former passions that enabled him to write the work.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 12v).
Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
12 leaves foliated 1-12, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmacchaṃkarācāryaviracitaṃ amaruśatakaṃ samāptaṃ // (f. 12v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked in most folios with double red line (f. 1-8).

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 2141 (UP 1537).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1537.

Contributor:

Śaṅkarācārya, attributed name.

OCLC:

921940184