Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Bhartr̥hari

Other related names

• Prabhākara Bhaṭṭa (Son of Sadāśiva Bhaṭṭa), scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9964458643503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/913791906
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6445864

Publisher

Language

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.
   
• 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).
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Wisdom--Religious aspects--Hinduism--Early works to 1800
• Women--Religious aspects--Hinduism--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Commentaries
• Poems
• Drawings (visual works)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1502: Nītiśataka are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode