The History of Indian Literature c9.95

c9.95

²²⁰ See Böhtlingk's critical edition of these aphorisms, *Indische Sprüche*, 3 vols., 1863–65 (with 5419 vv.), 2d edition, 1870–73 (with 7613 vv.), and Aufrecht's analysis, in the *Z. D. M. G.*, xxvii. 1 ff. (1873), of the *Śárṅgadhara-Paddhati*, of the fourteenth century, — an anthology of about 6000 vv. culled from 264 different authors and works. Compare also Joh. Klatt, *De Trecentis Cháṇakyae Sententiis* (1873), and Dr. John Muir's *Religious and Moral Sentiments from Sanskrit Writers* (1875). Regarding an anthology which, both in extent and antiquity, surpasses that of Śárṅgadhara, viz., the *Sadukti-karṇámṛita* of Śrídharadása, compiled Śake 1127 (A.D. 1205), and comprising quotations from 446 poets, see the latest number of Ráj. Lála Mitra's *Notices*, iii. 134–149. The statement at the close of the work respecting the era of king Lakshmaṇasena, in whose service the poet's father was, is both in itself obscure, and does not well harmonise with our other information on the point. On account of the numerous examples it quotes we may also here mention the *Sarasvatí-kaṇṭhábharaṇa*, a treatise on poetics attributed to king Bhoja-deva, and therefore belonging probably to the eleventh century; see on it Aufrecht, *Catalogus*, pp. 208, 209.—To this class also belongs, though its contents are almost entirely erotic, the Prákṛit anthology of Hála, consisting properly of only 700 verses (whence its name *Sapta-śataka*), which, however, by successive recensions have grown to 1100–1200. It was the prototype of the *Sapta-śatí* of Govardhana, a work of about the twelfth century, which in its turn seems to have served as the model for the *Sattasaí* of the Hindí poet Bihárí Lal; see my Essay on the Sapta-śataka of Hála (1870), pp. 9, 12, and *Z. D. M. G.*, xxviii. 345 ff. (1874), and also Garrez in the *Journ. Asiat.*, August 1872, p. 197 ff.