Dear Friends,

This is in relation to Daṇḍin's Dasakumāracarita and the monthly ritual of kanduka-krīḍita that the princess, Kandukavatī, performed for Vindhyavāsinī during kṛttikā.

Raghavan (1960, 149) has briefly mentioned a:

'commentary Padacandrikā quotes a treatise called Kanduka-tantra on the art of playing with ball.' 

Raghavan, V., ed. 1960. Nṛttaratnavali of Jāya Senāpati. Madras: Government Oriental Manuscripts Library.

I would be most grateful for any information about how to locate and access these two texts.


Thank you.

All the best,

Patrick McCartney, PhD
Phoenix Fellow 2023–26, HIroshima University, Japan
ISRF Fellow 2022–23 - Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Research Associate - Nanzan University Anthropological Institute, Nagoya, Japan
Visiting Fellow - South and South-east Asian Studies Department, Australian National University


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