A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s2.123

v3.c35.s2.123

In the 12th century A.D., Rudra¹ or Rudrabhaṭṭa wrote Śṛṅgāratilaka, a work, which is a collection of erotic stanzas and a manual of poetics at the same time, and in it the erotic sentiment has been illustrated with examples. The small work contains stanzas purely composed by the author himself, only short superscriptions pointing as to what they are meant to serve as examples of. Many of the stanzas have been included in later anthologies. Th. Aufrecht² has beautifully translated into German the one (I, 3) addressed to the critics—here summarily referred to as rogues—