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Title

Authors

• Amaru

Other related names

• Śaṅkarācārya, attributed name

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9954138023503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/773585154

Publisher

Language

Summary

Deals with erotic and romantic love, passion, estrangement, longing, rapprochement, joy and sorrow, betrayal, and gives details about medieval courting rituals; manuscript generally parallels printed editions of the Amaruśataka of Amaru, but diverges from them significantly in a number of verses and is attributed to Śaṅkarācārya in the colophon (f. 12r).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 12r).
   
• Written in 8 lines per leaf.
   
• 12 leaves foliated 1-12, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1767 (1710) (f. 12r).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins in red and black; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black and red line; verso of most folios treated with yellow pigment.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Erotic literature, Sanskrit
• Courtship--India

Genres

• Poems
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

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