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Title

Authors

• Bhartr̥hari

Other related names

• Taradatta, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959555673503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/844235352
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5955567

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for recitation and study and is a collection of poetic aphorisms by the well-known poet-philosopher Bhartṛhari. The text is divided into three parts, each consisting of a little more than one hundred (śataka) verses, each an aphorism on one of three themes. Part one is Nītiśataka or one hundred aphorisms on morality. Part 2 is Śṛṅgāraśataka or one hundred aphorisms on sexual desire. Part 3 is Vairāgyaśataka or one hundred aphorisms on detachment or aversion to passions. Manuscript lacks a beginning and starts on verse 15 of Part 1. The work may have been part of a larger collection of poetry or philosophy and/or part of a larger anthology of works by Bhartṛhari since the foliation count begins at folio 35 and could not account for the missing verses of Part 1.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger; title of Part 1, Nītiśataka, from internal colophon (f. 41v); title of Part 2 Śr̥ngāraśataka from internal colophon (f. 49r); tile of Part 3, Vairāgyaśataka, from final colophon (f. 58r).
   
• Scribe is Taradatta (f. 58v).
   
• Written in 10 lines per leaf.
   
• 24 leaves foliated 35-58, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with quadruple black line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hinduism--Doctrines
• Sex--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Self-control--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Hindu ethics

Genres

• Poems
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--17th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--17th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

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