Amaruśataka, 1710; अमरुशतक,१७१०

Contributor:

Śaṅkarācārya (attributed name)

Name:

Amaru

Date:

1710

Description:

Deals with erotic and romantic love, passion, estrangement, longing, rapprochement, joy and sorrow, betrayal, and gives details about medieval courting rituals; manuscript generally parallels printed editions of the Amaruśataka of Amaru, but diverges from them significantly in a number of verses and is attributed to Śaṅkarācārya in the colophon (f. 12r).

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Courtship; Erotic literature, Sanskrit; Courtship -- India

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Poems; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 item (12 leaves) : paper; 10 x 16 cm

Geographic Subject:

India

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Attributed to Śaṅkarācārya (f. 12r), but is typically assigned to Amaru in the 7th-8th centuries CE.; Title from colophon (f. 12r).; Written in 8 lines per leaf.; 12 leaves foliated 1-12, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: iti ṣrīśaṃkarācāryaviracitaṃ amarūkaśataṃ samāptaṃ // cha // saṃvat 1767 (f. 12r).; Dated saṃvat 1767 (1710) (f. 12r).; Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins in red and black; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black and red line; verso of most folios treated with yellow pigment.; Non-Latin script record.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1484

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts