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Title

Kāmaratna
कामरत्न

Authors

• Śrīnātha

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 762
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962195633503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/880980185
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6219563

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript is used for reference and consultation and is a treatise and manual about desire, human relations, especially sexual relations, as well as medical topics from a Tantric perspective (non-conventional medical practices); includes various rites and ceremonies on how to subdue the opposite sex, among other topics. Many diagrams (yantras) with words, including those of the human body, animals, and architectural structures, as well as floral patterns.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 62).
   
• Written in 4-16 lines per leaf.
   
• 62 leaves foliated 1-62, 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; some folios covered in yellow turmeric powder.
   

Extent

1 item (62 leaves) : 13 x 26 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīnāthaviracite kāmaratne rasādiśodhanamāraṇakathannāmaṣoḍaśoṣadeśaḥ // 13 // (f. 62r).

Subjects topical

• Tantrism
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Sex--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Erotic literature, Sanskrit
• Medicine--India
• Yantras

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Treatises
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 6v-7r — Diagrams, f. 6v
• fol. 6v-7r — Diagrams, f. 7r
• fol. 7v-8r — Diagrams, f. 7v
• fol. 7v-8r — Diagrams, f. 8r
• fol. 8v-9r — Diagrams, f. 8v
• fol. 8v-9r — Diagrams, f. 9r
• fol. 9v-10r — Diagrams, f. 9v
• fol. 11v-12r — Diagrams, f. 11v
• fol. 12v-13r — Diagrams, f. 12v
• fol. 12v-13r — Diagrams, f. 13r
• fol. 13v-14r — Diagrams, f. 13v
• fol. 13v-14r — Diagrams, f. 14r
• fol. 14v-15r — Diagrams, f. 14v
• fol. 14v-15r — Diagrams, f. 15r
• fol. 15v-16r — Diagrams, f. 15v
• fol. 15v-16r — Diagrams, f. 16r
• fol. 16v-17r — Diagrams, f. 16v
• fol. 16v-17r — Diagrams, f. 17r
• fol. 17v-18r — Diagrams, f. 17v
• fol. 17v-18r — Diagrams, f. 18r
• fol. 19v-20r — Diagrams, f. 20r
• fol. 20v-21r — Diagrams, f. 20v
• fol. 23v-24r — Diagrams, f. 23v
• fol. 23v-24r — Diagram, f. 24r
• fol. 33v-34r — Small illustration, f. 33v
• fol. 36v-37r — Diagram, f. 36v
• fol. 37v-38r — Diagrams, f. 38r
• fol. 38v-39r — Diagrams, f. 38v
• fol. 38v-39r — Diagrams, f. 39r
• fol. 40v-41r — Diagrams, f. 40v
• fol. 41v-42r — Diagrams, f. 41v
• fol. 42v-43r — Illustration, f. 42v
• fol. 43v-44r — Diagrams, f. 43v
• fol. 43v-44r — Diagrams, f. 44r
• fol. 44v-45r — Diagrams, f. 44v
• fol. 44v-45r — Diagrams, f. 45r
• fol. 45v-46r — Diagram, f. 45v
• fol. 45v-46r — Diagrams, f. 46r
• fol. 59v-60r — Diagram, f. 59v
• fol. 60v-61r — Diagrams, f. 60v