Nītiśataka, 1753.
नीतिशतक

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Bhartr̥hari.

Contributor:

Prabhākara Bhaṭṭa (Son of Sadāśiva Bhaṭṭa), scribe.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Women--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Wisdom--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Wisdom--Religious aspects--Hinduism--Early works to 1800.

Women--Religious aspects--Hinduism--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

commentaries

poems

drawings (visual works)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (34 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 26 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1502

Place of Publication:

1753.

१७५३.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Second part of Bhartr̥hari's poetic treatise called the Śataka (The Hundred), in which each section contains slightly over 100 maxims on different topics. Nītiśataka addresses worldly wisdom (nīti) and follows a section on the dangers of love and the allure of the female body and women in general. Wisdom is up held as a higher path for enlightened men in their search for liberation from the world. Manuscript contains an unidentified commentary following each verse. Manuscript lacks a beginning.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 40r).

Written in 7-10 lines per leaf.

34 leaves foliated 7-40, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrībhartṛharinā viracitaṃ ṭīkāyānītiśatakaṃ samāptaṃ // idaṃ pustakaṃ sadāśivabhaṭṭatmajaprabhākarabhaṭṭena likhitaṃ // śake 1675 // ānaṃdavane jyeṣṭhamāseśu - 5 // samāptaṃ // śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ // (f. 40r).

Dated śaka 1675 (1753) (f. 40r).

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some numbers highlighted in red; floral design on the final folio (f. 40r).

Scribe is Prabhākara Bhaṭṭa, son of Sadāśiva Bhaṭṭa (f. 40r).

Cited in:

Listed in H.I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 2168 (UP 1502).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1502.

OCLC:

913791641