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.
Title from colophon (f. 62).; Written in 4-16 lines per leaf.; 62 leaves foliated 1-62, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: iti śrīnāthaviracite kāmaratne rasādiśodhanamāraṇakathannāmaṣoḍaśoṣadeśaḥ // 13 // (f. 62r).; 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.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 762
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