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Sringara Kavya of Shankar Kavi

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Author Amal Shib Pathak
Publisher Chaukhamba Publications
Language English & Sanskrit
Edition 2022
ISBN 978-81-89798-25-3
Pages 73
Cover Paper Back
Size 14 x 4 x 22 (l x w x h)
Weight
Item Code CSS0110
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Sringara Kavya of Shankar Kavi The manuscript of Śringāra Kavya of Shankar was found clubbed with that of Kama Samuha of Ananta* under BBRAS-1167 of Asiatic Society of Bombay. I have constructed the text of the present work Śringāra Kavya on the basis of this manuscript only. There were a few places where I could not decipher the words of the scribe. At a few other places I have taken some liberty in their translation into English. As régards poet’s date no clue could be gathered from internal sources, nor is there any reference in it of earlier works that could help. As it is a minor work it has not been quoted by other poets who came later, either. The female breasts, as we know, are the most obvious and attractive part of her body. It will be observed that in the evolution of Sanskrit erotic literature from description of female body, the description of female breasts will be in sequence of linear progression, so to say. Hence I have placed Shankar after Ananta the author of Kama Samuha and before the advent of Rīti Kāla in Hindi literature in the 17/18th cen. AD which picked up the trend of नखशिखवर्णन of नायिका.

I am appending the portion of description of fe male breasts appearing in Ananta’s Kāma Samüha which may underline the shift in trend of Sanskrit erotic literature. Shankar does not seem to be aware of Ananta’s work. However, the recurrent comparison of breasts with Lord Shiva and the string of pearl necklace resembling water bubbles of the streams of river Ganga falling on Lord Shiva’s head is a common meeting point of their imagination. Both have devoted a large number of verses in describing female bosom. Śringāra Kāvya is a small work and the manuscript seems to be complete as the second verse of the work and the last colophon indicate that very clearly. I now venture to place it before the learned for whatever it is worth. If it is found of some use my ef forts will be amply rewarded.

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