Amorous Delight

The Amarushataka Palm-Leaf Manuscript, Illustrated by the Master of Sharanakula in the 19th Century (Orissa, India)

Eberhard Fischer and Dinanath Pathy

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• Published: 2006
• Subject Listing: Asian Art
• Bibliographic information: 256 pp., 300 illus., 261 in color, 9 x 12.5 in.
• Territorial rights: Rights in U.S. and Canada only
• Distributed for: Paul Holberton publishing
• Series: Artibus Asiae Supplementum 47, Rietberg Museum
• Contents

"This monograph publishes for the first time a pothi or palm leaf manuscript of the Amarushataka from Orissa in the collection of the Rietberg Museum in Zurich. While the verses are, without doubt, some of the greatest in the annals of Sanskrit literature - they have been hailed throughout India as classics even up to the present day - is it the illustrations of this work that have absorbed and concern us here. " - From the Preface by Eberhard Fischer and Dinanath Pathy

Preface

PART 1
1 The Amarushataka: Anthology of One Hundred Verses
1.1 The Poet
1.2 The Poems

2 The Illustrated Amarushataka Pothi from Sharanakula (Orissa)
2.2 The Palm Leave Manuscript
2.2. The Sanskrit Text, Written in Oriya Script
2.2.1 The Poem Sequence
2.2.2 Variations in the Verses
2.3 The Colophon
2.4 The Painter
2.5 The Handwriting
2.6 Dating the Illustrated Pothi

3 Other Early Amarushataka Illustrations: The Pothi by the Master of Baripada

4 The Illustrations by the Master of Sharanakula
4.1 Reconstruction of the Drawing Process of the Master of Sharanakula
4.2 Stylistic Peculiarities of the Amarushataka Illustrations
4.2.1 The Nayaka, the Hero
4.2.2 The Nayika, the Heroine
4.2.3 The Lovers in Union
4.2.4 Architectural Forms

5 The Oeuvre of the Master of Sharanakula
The Illustrated Ushabhilasa Pothi and the Radhakrishnakeli Fragments
5.1 The Human Figures
5.2 Images of Krishna and Kamadeva
5.3 Non-Figural Materials
5.4 Conclusion: Comparing the Three Illustrated Palm Leaf Manuscripts

PART II
The Amarushataka Pothi Illustration by the Master of Sharanakula
Folios 1-50 (plus additional folios), Slokas 1-100

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