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Title

Authors

• Amaru

Other related names

• Śaṅkarācārya, attributed name

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9967170153503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/921940206
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6717015

Publisher

Language

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.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked in most folios with double red line (f. 1-8).
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology
• Erotic literature, Sanskrit

Genres

• Poems
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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