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

Title

Anaṅgaraṅga
अनङ्गरङ्ग

Authors

• Kalyāṇamalla

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 522
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959625743503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/847765702
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5962574

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript used as a kind of manual, guide, and treatise on love and sex, predominantly from the male perspective, analyzing and categorizing different types of men and women, according to physical characteristics, mental disposition, and sexual appetite. There is also discussion of the sexual compatibility between different types of men and women, as well as compatibility in marriage.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 42r).
   
• Written in 8 lines per leaf.
   
• 42 leaves foliated 1-42, 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

1 item (42 leaves) : 11 x 25 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: ity anaṃgaraṃgasamāptaḥ // (f. ).

Subjects topical

• Sex--India
• Sex--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Marriage--India
• Love--Religious aspects--Hinduism

Genres

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

Licenses

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