अनङ्गरङ्ग (महाकवि कल्याणमल्ल - कामशास्त्र एवं रति-प्रयोग संस्कृत मूल पाठ)

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library reference numbers 3-4-27; 3-3-24; 4B 7-6; 4B-
7-7; and 3-1-43 respectively.
As may be expected, I thoroughly collated also
the two printed texts: L=the Lahore edition, V=that
of Viṣṇuprasādabhaṇḍārin.
Kalyāṇamalla wrote his book for the amusement
of Lāḍ Khān, son of Ahmad, who is styled to have been
the crown of the Lodī House. Owing to the fact that
there Lodī kings immediately preceded the Timur
House in the person of Baber Shah, the Anaṅgaraṅga
may have been composed in the XVIth century of the
the Christian era. Nothing more can be said about
the author and his life-circumstances with any certain-
ty. But we learn from the introductory stanzas that he
borrowed his deeds and teachings from elder sources:
मतानि दृष्ट्वा बहुशो मुनीनां तत्सारमादाय निरूपयामि ।
"Having manifoldly examined the opinions of the sage
men, and extracted the essence of them, I compose
(my book)." This we are also told by the whole work.
Indian tradition enumerates a pretty large number of
authors who wrote on the present subject e.g. Auddālaki,
Bābhravya, Dattaka, Cārāyaṇa, Suvarṇanābha, Ghoṭaka-
mukha, Gonardīya, Goṇikāputra, Kucumāra, Vātsyāya-
na, Kokkoka, Kaviśekhara Jyotīśvara Jayadeva, Bhānu-
datta etc., and plenty of titles are known, vid. Anaṅ-
gatilaka, Anaṅgadīpikā, Anaṅgaśekhara, Kandarpacū-
ḍāmaṇi, Kāmaprakāśa, Kāmaprabodha, Kāmasāra, Nā-
garasarvasvam, Pañcasāyaka, Madanasaṃjīvanī, Mada-
nārṇava, Yogaratnāvalī, Ratimañjarī, Ratisarvasvam,
Ratisāra, Vātsyāyanasūtrasāra (by Kṣemendra), Veśyā-
ṅganākalpa, Śṛṅgārasāriṇī, Strīvilāsa, Smaratattvapra-
kāśikā, Smradīpikā, Smararahasyavyākhyā, and many
others.
Only a small number of these texts have been
printed, by far, most of them being known by name
only.
Münster } R. SCHMIDT