Details

Subjects:

Love -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Sex -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Self-control -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Treatises.
Watermarks.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Treatise and anthology of one hundred poetic verses on love.
Manuscript is used for recitation and study and is a treatise and a collection of poetic aphorisms by the well-known poet-philosopher Bhartṛhari. The text is divided into two parts with the second part being incomplete. These parts actually constitute the second and part of the third section of a larger work in three parts. Each is meant to be little more than one hundred (śataka) verses and each presents aphorisms on one of three themes. The first part of the manuscript (the second part of Bhartr̥hari's work) is the Śṛṅgāraśataka, or one hundred aphorisms on sexual desire (f. 1v-10r). The second part of the manuscript (third part of Bhartr̥hari's larger work) is called Vairāgyaśataka or one hundred aphorisms on detachment or aversion to passions (f. 10r-14v). Manuscript lacks a beginning and an ending.

Contents:

Śṛṅgāraśataka (f. 1v-10r)
Vairāgyaśataka (f. 10r-14v).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 10r).
Written in 17-19 lines per leaf.
14 leaves foliated 1-14, upper left and lower right verso.
Internal colophon: iti bhartṛhariviracitaṃ śṛṃgāraśatakaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇaṃ // (f. 10r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line.
Watermarks of a fleur-de-lis and three interconnected circles with a cross.

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 2169 and 2183 (UP 1562).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1562.

OCLC:

927440336