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Title

Authors

• Govardhana, active 12th century

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959631653503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/847872389
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5963165

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Language

Summary

Manuscript of is used for recitation and contemplation; title translates as, Seven hundred elegant verses. Deals with topics such as marriage, domestic abuse, love, sex, emotions, and other topics. Opens with a reference to the Hindu deity Śiva and his wife Pārvatī; and references to various Hindu gods and their mythological exploits are drawn on as a source of analogy throughout. Manuscript contains a collection of more than 600 verses in the ārya meter, as about 87 verses are missing (between verse numbers 120 and 208); there are two leaves are foliated 6, with some text repeated; this may be the result of scribal error or of combination of two distinct manuscripts of the same text.

Notes

• Title from abbreviation on title page (f. 1v).
   
• Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 30 leaves foliated 1-6, 6-29, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Incipit: pāṇigrahe pulakitaṃ vapur aiśaṃ bhūtibhūṣitaṃ jayati // (f. 1v).
   
• 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 double black line.
   

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Support

Subjects topical

• Erotic literature, Indic
• Love poetry, Indic
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Parvati (Hindu deity)
• Hindu gods
• Marriage--India
• Family violence--India

Genres

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

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