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