Shringara-manjari-katha

Shringara-manjari-katha
AuthorBhoja or another author under his patronage
Original titleशृंगार मंजरी कथा / शृङ्गार मञ्जरी कथा
TranslatorKalpalata Munshi
LanguageSanskrit
Publication date
11th century
Publication placeParamara kingdom, India
Published in English
1959

Shringara-manjari-katha (IAST: Śṛṅgāra-mañjarī-kathā, "Stories for Shringara-manjari") is an 11th-century Sanskrit-language storybook from India. Attributed to king Bhoja, it has been partially recovered from a fragmentary manuscript. It contains a frame story, in which a courtesan's mother instructs her daughter on how to deal with men of various characters, through 13 sub-stories.