A History of Sanskrit Literature c17.s1.4

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There are also some modern anthologies of Sanskrit gnomic poetry. One of these is Çrīdharadāsa's *Saduktikarṇāmṛita*, or "Ear-nectar of Good Maxims," containing quotations from 446 poets, mostly of Bengal, and compiled in 1205 A.D. The *Çārṅgadhara-paddhati*, or "Anthology of Çārṅgadhara," dating from the fourteenth century, comprises about 6000 stanzas culled from 264 authors. The *Subhāshitāvalī*, or "Series of Fine Sayings," compiled by Vallabhadeva, contains some 3500 stanzas taken from about 350 poets. All that is best in Sanskrit sententious poetry has been collected by Dr. Böhtlingk, the Nestor of Indianists, in his *Indische Sprüche*. This work contains the text, critically edited and accompanied by a prose German translation, of nearly 8000 stanzas, which are culled from the whole field of classical Sanskrit literature and arranged according to the alphabetical order of the initial word.