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Title

Śārṅgadharaviracita paddhati
शाङ्र्गधरविरचित पद्धति

Authors

• Śārṅgadhara
• Śārṅgadharasubhāṣita

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 504
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959622363503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/847744242
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5962236

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is for recitation and contemplation and is a collection (paddhati) of more than 500 poetic verses that cover a range of topics from love, anguish, women, sex, artha, karma, and dharma; additionally contains instructions for morality, gardening, omens, weapons, and other kinds of practical advice. Manuscript is incomplete and lacks an ending, but contains most of the text.

Notes

• Title from internal colophon (f. 33v); alternate title Śārṅgadharasubhāṣita supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
   
• 52 leaves foliated 1-2, 7-8, 23-70, lower right verso.
   
• Internal colophon: iti śārṅ[ga]dharaviracitāyāṃ paddhatyāṃ viśiṣṭakavipraśaṃ sāparichedaḥ // (f. 33v).
   
• 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.
   

Extent

1 item (52 leaves) : 12 x 22 cm

Support

Paper

Subjects topical

• Sex--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Love in literature
• Hindu women
• Weapons--India
• Dharma
• Omens--Religious aspects--Hinduism

Genres

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

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — small table f. 1r